Keep it Real

I saw Tron: Legacy today. It was the first time that I can remember stepping into a movie theater since Taken, about two years ago. Tron was decent, not what I expected for 3D but decent nonetheless. There was a scene at the end that left me thinking, and of course my mind drifted into otherspace. I noticed that earlier today. Outside from watching or listening to something going on directly in front of me, I have trouble centering my focus. Even when I am paying attention sometimes! Please pray for me.

Be that as it may, I cannot help but to think about the human condition. Things on the outside do not always reflect what's on the inside (vice versa). That's quite terrible if you ask me. One may appear to be irresistibly attracted to someone or something, yet that person or thing may actually disgust the individual down to their inner most being. Sometimes, I can't understand how anyone would be drawn away in such a manner, though I've been subject to the same situation. What I marvel at, though, are the potential results of inner-outer reflection by us human beings. Transparency. Integrity. Reality?

Many of us are all too familiar with the phrase "Keep it real." How real are we? My Soc 375 Professor posed this same question, based on Rene Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy". The prof. bet anyone in the class to prove their existence, beyond "I think therefore I am." If I may submit, what is the definition of reality? Of course we may perceive many things to be real, but of what substance? After dealing with this flesh, I've had times where I was at my wits' end, questioning myself, "why". The answer is, because I had not identified myself. My identity is not in my word, or in my deeds. It's in God's Purpose, Word and Perfect Will. Let me get to the point.

The world can't define reality. No one in the world. Not even I. God is real, however, and only the things that He does are real. I'm created and exist for His purpose. If I choose not to identify with what God is doing, then I'm just a superficial trend (trends are always changing). The only way I can live in reality is by aligning with the Word, Purpose, and Will of God. Even when I do, I MUST continue and NOT be sidetracked! The Purpose of God is not just a one time quick fix. It's eternal, and it begins for me here on this earth, never ending in the Heavens.

This was not the thought I pondered after leaving the movie, although it's extremely related. Initially, I wondered about how we allow things in the peripheral to affect the things that are chief. What's least important tends to take our attention from what matters most. The Spirit of God will always let us know what's most important in His eyes!

I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
Isaiah 43:6-7
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 3:18

Get excited for what the Lord wants to do with you!!!