Shadows and Realities

OH Father God,

Oh that we would learn that we are living in the shadow of the reality. The reality is in you. In your kingdom, your Heaven and in your Presence. Here we are shadows of that reality.

Father, help us to become reality. As C.S. Lewis discussed in The Great Divorce, I pray we would become more and more real the longer we know you and walk with you. That our spirits would continue to gain and become more substantial. Your Word says that our outer person is wasting away while our inner person continues to grow. Father, please help us to understand this and allow you to do your work in us.

This shadowed place we live in is not what it will be. This shadowy realm that we abide in will not be the place of light we arrive at someday. But until then, may your word be a light to our path. Let your Word be a lamp to our feet as we traverse this road. Father, may we learn the difference between shadow and reality. May we understand that who we are in you, the position we have in you, is because of what Jesus did. He traversed the road first.

Because of what he did we are offered the reality.

Father, I want to know more here and now. I want to know you more. I want more of you. More. To know you more…so much more that the shadows begin to dissipate. They begin to trail away leaving only tendrils and mist—unveiling the Reality.

Father, please. Enable my mind and spirit to absorb more of you. Oh, that I might be filled with you. Until the flesh of me is relegated to the outer edges of me, and your Brightness fills me instead.

Amen and amen