My Sunday School class. A room full of kindergarteners, including my little one. Today, a little girl showed me her new necklace from her tooth fairy in exchange for a lost tooth.
Next to her in the water break line, another kindergartner girl hears our conversation. She proceeds to share with me that she has her own tooth fairy too, and that she even knows her name. I asked her how this was possible.
My mom read a letter to me from my tooth fairy.
It read, “Hi, I want to introduce myself to you. I’m your tooth fairy and my name is Heather Moonleaf.”
Wow. Like stunned wow. How well she articulated that note leads me to surmise she must have asked her mom to read it many, many times to her.
To make life “interesting” for our children, we sometimes create realities for them that don’t exist in the real world.
As adults, we sometimes create realities for ourselves as well. Realities that run counter to our spiritual walk and don’t align with the word of God. Why? We redesign new realities to enable us to live and make choices outside of the will of God.
We function within certain rules of engagement in our work, family, and friends environments, and professional, personal, and social settings. We have roads and directions in our journey of faith.
But we can flex those rules and change the paths and turns we take. We can lift and extend boundaries established by God when we entered into a covenant relationship with Him. So that we can step over those divine boundaries and detour how we see best. Like grass that seems greener somewhere else. Living life beyond the boundaries and apart from the will of God often appears more exhilarating and exciting.
We can create realities where God is no longer relevant and relegating Him a minor role in own roadmap to self-fulfillment and happiness. Where we don’t need God anymore.
At some point. What our hands make, what is man-made becomes an idol if it usurps God’s place. Our new realities can compete with God-reality, and becones an idol when we pursue these newly created realities over a centered God-reality.
When we reject a God-reality, we reject truth.
Across the four gospels, we see how the Pharisees recreated new realities and rejected the most essential truth: Jesus as God’s Son. The One sent from God to forgive sins, bring healing, and save all who believe in His name.
Embrace a God-led Jesus-reality. Embrace the Real Truth today.