Redemption Reality Check

I’ve got a critical assignment for you.  Watch The Passion Movie every year.  

It’s so important to rehearse the redemption story each year at Easter.  We get so lost in our “mid-town America” reality.  It’s so easy to forget God’s story and His work.  The bible says that the spiritual world is more real than this earthly soil that we live in and walk on.  This world that we live in is almost like a video game reality.  It’s not the real thing.  It’s a facade, a secondary reality to the true, primary reality.  It’s like when kids play a video game, or we get enveloped in watching a movie; we are transported into a different world.  It’s like we are under a spell until we put the game controller away or the lights go up in the movie theatre.

The victory is in not being sucked into this present reality’s spell, somehow staying alert to what He did, and what He calls us to do and not letting our lives get lost in that secondary, earthly state of existence that will fade away like a puff of smoke before we know it.

And as much as we need to be reminded of the spiritual reality on a regular basis, our kids need to face these things even more as they battle not only the country and the century that they were born into, but they also battle the additional attitude of youth, that life is for nothing but pleasure and play.  They need to see that their lives are not their own and that they were bought with a price.  They need to see what Christ did for them and be shaken out of the trance that this world is constantly placing on all of us.

That is our job as their parents.  All the other roles that we get wrapped up in raising them well, making sure they have wonderful educations, all kinds of opportunities, develop themselves... ect, ect.  Our first priority is to disciple them in Christ and teach them to fight the good fight of faith, even as they see us do the same.