From A to V - a.k.a. Foreign Reality
I confess it.
I watched almost salivating while the Bachelor and his betrothed broke up on national TV.
Come on! You knew it wouldn't last. No big shocker. True "everlasting" love found on a reality show? Evident throughout the "break-up" phase (being borne out on the entertainment shows chronicling the dissolution and dissolve) is that the characters we saw - were hardly real. There wasn't much "reality" on reality T.V!
We have been duped! We have been deceived! Allegations of lying, cheating and infidelity aside the truth is we were lied to. We were cheated on - infidelity was committed, but not by Vienna or Jake - but by the greatest liar and "media whore" of all time.
The enemy, constantly weaves his way into our heart and minds, trying desperately to rob, steal and destroy the truth about the "Lover of our soul."
"That we might know, the things that have been given to us freely by Christ." 1 Corinthians 2:12
The truth is not found through any media outlet, but in the Word. Faith, the thing "hoped for as yet unseen," isn't highlighted on the Discovery Channel. We have been given the Spirit to "know" what Christ gave us freely. We didn't have to charm, seduce, or fight to prove we were worthy of His affection. "While we were yet sinners..."
And even though the real circumstances of the world and life might make me cry like the heartbroken and jilted lover Vienna, Christ never sits in cross-legged distance or disgust. His cross proves His affection and devotion. His reality is THE reality. "For God so loved..."
I saw the film with a good friend, and as we walked out in awe at human creativity, we both said, "Can you believe how good heaven is going be? If this is what the mind of James Cameron can come up with - WOW, God is going to blow our minds!"
In two weeks I leave for Tanzania, East Africa. The reality the 650 women attending face, is far from our own. They deal with life-threatening circumstances each and every day; AIDS, malaria, clean water, education and diseases easily curable in other parts of the world. But not their world. THAT is something to cry about. THAT is heart-breaking!
We go to share what is life-giving! The hope in the promises of God Almighty. The Truth of the Word - "that they may know what has been given freely."
Join us on this world-changing mission. Here is the reality - "how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent."
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