The good news is we are able to daily stroll, converse, sing, and work alongside the eternal and immortal.
Entrapment is suffocating and frightening. To somehow be limited to our current reality, cut off from this other dimension would be awefully bad news. Good for us then that Jesus made a connection with the unseen possible. We have access to liberation and hope...which is really good news.
But still, some may not see the value and ask, "What’s the big deal?"
The big deal is that we have access to help. There is a better way. We can follow life along a proven and safe path with the guarantee of a happy ending. Being always in touch with one who loves us unselfishly and unreservedly is hard to beat—I mean, a person who has our best interests ahead of their own ALWAYS! The big deal is that our day is not 24 hours long and our lives are not a few dozen years, but unending. Because of this new connection, time is a grain of sand on the face of a borderless landscape. Life is without end though in a temporary shell for now.
The big deal is that we can relate with the unseen in a very natural and easy way. The big deal is that as we abide in this unseen reality it changes us---we are improved; we are transformed. Like the sun tanning pale flesh, so God’s light in our daily grind changes our attitudes, actions, emotions, and relations. The end of this intercourse is peace, joy, patience, kindness, mercy, gentleness and more. It affects us like this both in how we treat others, and how we feel about ourselves.
There is more reality than what we can see. The misty limitations of our bodies limit us, but there is reality beyond what we can see, and we are not relegated to living as victims of our surroundings. It is possible for us to rise above our experiences by linking to the realities which exist above our experiential shells. Even as we brush our teeth, brew our coffee, and eek out a living, we can operate in the context of a separate continuum. We can escape all that is failing and dying! We can be rescued, and that is really, really good news, especially in the light of all the bad news of the day.
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