Biblical Definition of Illusion and Reality

"By faith [Moses] forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible." (Hebrews 11:27)

All the people of faith mentioned in Hebrews, "endured as seeing Him who is invisible" (12:2).  If we only "see" that which is visible, we will not endure.

The cynic says that people who, "endure[] as seeing Him who is invisible," are living uneducated nonsense, living in illusion.  "Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress.  Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation.  It is the opium of the people.  The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness.  The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions" (Karl Marx).  Western Civilization, once dominated by the Christian Faith, is now dominated by, "The demand to give up the illusion...."  The American educational system used to start the day with the, "Words of God," and the Prayer of Jesus.  Now the vast majority of American children start their day with the "words" of Darwin and Marx.

Today, you and I will "see" and hear a whole lot of things which seem to be the reality, but are really "the illusion."  Only what we cannot see and "hear" is the reality.  If what I see and hear with the physical senses dominate my reaction to life today, I will embrace the illusion of cynical academia, i.e., give up on Jesus Christ, leaning to my, "own understanding."  I quote the following passage in opposition to Karl Marx, Darwin, and their "Occupy Wall Street" disciples: "Therefore we do not lose heart.  Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.  For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.  For the things which are...not seen are eternal."

Father, in Jesus' Name, bless all Christian/Kingdom and Christ-centered Home Schools today.  Amen.
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When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

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Hebrews 12:2