When I was 3 years old, I wanted to be a rainbow. When I was older, I dreamed of flying like Superman. As a teen, I wanted to be a professional ice skater. Dreams all of them. Far-fetched and fantastical, and they were eventually replaced by reality, because at some point, I grew up.
Sometimes I look at the world and wonder when it became OK to live-action-role-play for real. When did it become acceptable to live in the fantasy world ON PURPOSE?
The trouble with living in this way is that you run the risk of “getting stuck that way.”
How can you live your real life and not feel the need to escape into a fantasy world of your own mind? A little VR might be therapeutic, but ignoring your problems is not. We are living in a world that is trying to substitute fantasy for its very own fiction. Girls are boys because they don’t want to be girls, boys are girls because they don’t want to be boys, what is good is now bad, and what is true is debatable. People live in a fantasy world when they can’t handle the truth, but truth never stops being truth. Accepting truth can be an obedience to the way the Creator designed you to be. Accepting truth can also be obeying God and completing the struggle He has put before you, for His reasons. The good thing is, God loves us, even though He allows us to struggle. Struggle brings salvation; if we didn’t struggle, we would never look to God.
The bottom line is, if you are doing things according to God’s commandments, and you are living your life within the community of believers and among a healthy church environment, then you have so much more in reality then you can ever find in the fake world of Amazon and Disney+. The truth is that you cannot listen to the world or your feelings – they both lie. You will learn this the hard way if you try to live a life apart from God.
Yes, life stinks sometimes, and yes, we struggle, but you cannot allow yourself to hermit up and try to tackle life alone. This is a form of living the fantasy; when we cannot face reality we need to ask for help. In my life, I have leaned on my faith so much. I cannot even imagine what struggles are like without God to carry the load.
1 Peter 5: 6-7 states “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.” (NKJV)
Live in the now, and know that it’s not THAT you struggle, but HOW you struggle. Oh, and go back to church like it’s your lifeline, because, it IS!
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