This morning the sunset was beautiful. And real. I took a photo through the window screen. On the desk next to me was a brochure from a theatre showing Jesus with a child and a lamb. In the background was a sunrise/sunset. And it occurred to me that while my photo was real, this brochure was an edited & enhanced photo of an actor playing Jesus, with a digitally produced sunset. It wasn’t real.
And that is how we operate in life. We follow small routines that say we think Christ is “nice” or “preferable,” but we base our decisions on forecasts, on what our eyes see, or what experts tell us. Christ, while we don’t stand “against” him, is not real to us.
So we bank on the sunrise which looks good, and not on the Son who rose for our good. We forget there were people who did see Jesus resurrected (scripture records over 500 eyewitnesses).
Lord, let us be confirmed that our faith is grounded in reality. A reality we might not see right now, but one that exists. Help us to act upon that reality. 