Free from Fantasy Land
A woman stumbles through the shattering glass of a doorway in Virtual Reality eyewear.
Another man cries in fear in the middle of his living room. On his VR headset, he’s teetering on a beam mere inches from plummetting to his death.
Living in a fantasy world is not always pleasant.
It can be painful.
Sometimes reality comes crashing through despite your delusion. Other times the delusion breaks you down.
What is the merciful thing to do for these people?
Take off their VR headsets and help them see reality. In love, someone needs to puncture through the make-believe.
Announcing the Gospel of Jesus Christ is meant to puncture the make-believe.
Are you regarding the truth about Christ as a merciful reality check or an inconvenient interruption to share personal preferences wiht your neighbor?
People need your merciful boldness to pull back the curtain on sin’s delusions.
Around you, Christian, are people so impressed with a fantasy world that it destroys their life in reality.
The lost live in a world where God is in charge, yet they stumble through His commands and shatter their lives.
The lost are held in fear by the wrong things like a man swatting virtual spiders while his house burns around him.
If we saw lostness the way we see Virtual Reality headsets we would gladly and joyfully remove them when we observed people suffering.
We can set forth plainly the truth of the Gospel and allow God to shine light into men’s hearts (2 Corinthians 4).
Some will continue in blindness because of the Enemy but others will see the light of Christ!
The Holy Spirit invites us, and will empower us, in joyful boldness in our Gospel witness!
Your neighbors can be set free from false fears!
Your family can be warned before crashing calamity!
Your children can taste true and lasting joys!
Don’t indulge delusions– speak frankly, joyfully, and constantly about the truth of Christ!
Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. 2 Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 5 For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” t made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:1–6