Real

There are so many things in our culture that are simply not real. There are imitations and fakes everywhere. I have “real fake” Christmas tree in my house. I used to have the “real” (aka dead tree) at my house, but it made quite a mess cleaning up. There are many things that happen on television or movies that are totally fake and made to look real. It is sometimes a challenge to really discern between the real and the imposter. In following the Lord there are ways to discern this. For me, what I believe about the Lord lines up with His Word. I don’t take a preacher or teacher’s word for it. I like to learn for myself about the Lord. Jeremiah makes some bold statements about how real God is. Check this out…

10 But the Lord is the true God;

    he is the living God, the eternal King.

When he is angry, the earth trembles;

    the nations cannot endure his wrath.

12 But God made the earth by his power;

    he founded the world by his wisdom

    and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

13 When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar;

    he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth.

He sends lightning with the rain

    and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

14 Everyone is senseless and without knowledge;

    every goldsmith is shamed by his idols.

The images he makes are a fraud;

    they have no breath in them.

15 They are worthless, the objects of mockery;

    when their judgment comes, they will perish.

16 He who is the Portion of Jacob is not like these,

    for he is the Maker of all things,

including Israel, the people of his inheritance—

    the Lord Almighty is his name. (Jeremiah 10:10;12-16 NIV)

 

It blows my mind that people could simply carve a wooden idol and believe that it had any power of life in it at all. I have seen the hand of the Lord at work in my life. I have felt His Powerful Presence as real as the chair I’m sitting in. I believe that He made the heavens and the earth and everything I see and touch and know comes from Him. He is full of mercy, grace and love even though He is powerful and mighty beyond any words I could use to describe Him. He is real. He came to earth to reveal real love like we’d never known before.

Pressing On!

Dwayne