What’s Your Reality? Part 2 by Ps Michael Podhaczky

In the previous blog, we began asking, what is reality? We had a look at some definitions and saw that the Oxford dictionary stated that it is,

“The state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.”[1]

In reading and think about this matter, I came across a helpful perspective that I would like to share here. It was offered by Richard Rohr, a minister from the US. He said that,

“After transformation, we don’t look out at reality as if it is hidden in the distance. We look out from reality! Our life is participating in God’s Life. We are living in Christ. As Paul tells the Colossians, ‘your life’s hidden with Christ in God’ (3:3). Paul is obsessed by this idea. It undergirds everything he writes. Paul is the great announcer of what is happening everywhere all the time much more than he is the architect of a new religion.”[2]

This new religion so called was named ‘The Way, before it was Christianity. But the more we read Paul’s writing that more we see this truth that, our life’s hidden with Christ in God.

But the truth of the matter that I would like to stress here is that if we are Christ-followers, then we live in the reality. As Rohr pointed out we look out from reality. Namely, Christ is our reality, and we are in Him. That is,

“For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Col 3:3 ESV).

The Message Bible 3:3 has put it this way,

“Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life—even though invisible to spectators—is with Christ in God. He is your life.”

That is, our real life in Christ is our reality. This is why we look out from reality; we look out from being in Jesus Christ. As with Paul, I have been consumed with this Kingdom truth for some years, and especially over the past 12 months. That is, as Christ-followers, we are in Christ and Christ is in us.

Pause in His presence for a moment and think this over…

---

[1] “Reality.” https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/reality (28^th February 2019).

[2] Rohr, Richard. “Christ in Paul’s Eye Paul’s Conversion.” https://cac.org/pauls-conversion-2019-02-25/ (28^th February 2019).