Throughout

life we are always dealing with what is real and what is

not.

Our youth and adults today

spend millions of dollars and hours on the

multi-billion-dollar industry of surreal video games. If

you asked someone playing these games if they know that

these games are only in the "reel" world, they

would respond with "certainly I know this is only a

game."

Daily we deal with the

issues of life that are very real to us, but I feel that

God has a very different perspective on the day to day

issues of our lives. As an evangelical Christian, I

believe that God is an "out breathing God"

meaning that He interacts with us daily and in all

situations. This is unlike the deists of old who thought

that God just started the earth in motion and then

withdrew to never interact with mankind again.

The longer I live the more

I realize how real the spiritual world really is and that

often what we call the "real" world is really

the "reel" world, as in a video or a movie.

Sound strange? Let me give

some examples. Let's just say that a string of seemingly

terrible things happen to you or to me like

life-threatening disease, serious financial troubles,

house is lost in a storm, relatives die, wars and rumors

of war, loss of wife or husband in divorce, and on and

on. Now for a moment think of yourself as God in heaven

looking down on your situation, knowing full well that

eternity awaits us.

When you give it some

serious thought, it really doesn't matter a whole lot

what happens to you and me in this physical world because

in the "big picture," our lives here are but a

drop in the bucket of time compared to eternity.

eternity? It has been said that if the world was a solid

steel ball and an angel came down and touched this solid

steel ball with its wing every 100 years, when this solid

steel ball we call earth was worn away, then this would

be just the "dawning" of eternity. Wow! Now how

do your problems look in the "real" world?

The answers to your

problems and mine are spiritual most of the time.

Jesus is the way, the

truth, the life, and no one comes unto the Father except

through Him. This is "real." God bless you in

your quest for what is "real" and true.

[The Rev. Dr. Knox Herndon

is the pastor of His House Community Church (SBC) and a

substitute school teacher in the Fayette County school

system, and a former Army chaplain. The church is

currently meeting in the American Legion Log Cabin across

from the fountain on the Square in Fayetteville. Prayer

line 770-719-2365.