REAL and IDEAL

How many times have you made a shopping list and walked into the supermarket to shop? When you got home and went through your list and checked what you had bought to see if they tally, what did you find out? The difference represents our failings as humans, the list is the ideal, what you bought is the reality on the ground. It is faith and strength of character which will minimize the difference, and Christ embodies these two characteristics.

I have not been able to blog in the past three weeks due to unavoidable circumstances as it is always said. The fact is in an ideal situation I would have still blogged in spite of what was going on. The reality on the ground was that I was not able to connect my thoughts and write. This is one thing I learned in college Chemistry, that a reaction proceeds differently in an ideal environment (standard temperature and pressure) as compared to a real environment where the pressure and temperature are subject to external forces.

As Christians we live in the real world, it is the picture of heaven that presents the ideal. Jesus also had a taste of real encounter when he was tempted by the devil in Luke 4 and he prevailed. This comes after 18 years period in Christs life which we are not told what he was up to. For him to come and encounter the devil with the word of God publicly, it is obvious he was reading the word of God in private during this years. I have learned and come to believe that to win public battles you have to first win them in private.

Yes, we desire ideal situation but even in the lab, the ideal conditions are not real but created for a specific reason. In the real world we meet real temptations; God says that there is no temptation that we will meet that is uncommon to man, but even if we meet the uncommon He will provide a way out.Build on your private victories because they will determine how you perform in public.Christ is walking with us, so you will never walk alone.

PEACE