The Real Reality

It's easy to get bogged down, isn't it? With life... with stuff... with our schedules. Even religion gets in the way. We have to do this for the church... or that play, or that outreach, or that charity. Satan can bog us down with religion, too, and we wind up being the ones needing the outreach.

It makes it hard, sometimes, to determine what is real. A couple of passages come to mind - both different.

Mar 5:2-4
(2) And He coming out from the boat, immediately out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit met Him,
(3) who had his abode among the tombs; and no one was able to bind him, not even with chains.
(4) Because he had often been bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn by him, and the fetters had been shattered. And no one was able to subdue him.

In this case, here is a man with a SPIRITUAL issue. Everyone has tried to solve 'his' problem with physical things, ie. fetters and chains. It didn't work out too well for them. Jesus delivered the man by His authority in the Spirit.

Act 3:2-7
(2) And a certain man, being lame from his mother's womb, was being carried, whom day by day they put at the door of the temple, being called Beautiful, to ask alms from those going into the temple;
(3) who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked alms.
(4) And with John, looking intently toward him, Peter said, Look to us!
(5) And he paid heed to them, expecting to receive something from them.
(6) But Peter said, There is no silver and gold to me, but what I have, this I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, rise up and walk!
(7) And taking him by the right hand, he raised him up. And immediately his feet and ankle-bones were made firm.

Now in this instance, the man's problem wasn't spiritual, it was physical. Once again, the problem was solved by Peter's authority in the Spirit.

In both cases, the spiritual and the physical, the SPIRIT is the answer. The Spirit trumps both. The Spirit is the real reality. That's why we are to live in the Spirit, and walk by Faith, not by sight.