Last week I heard one of those TV guys asking , “What would it feel like to live as though your dreams had come true?” He encouraged the TV audience to use their imaginations to find the feelings of wishes fulfilled. I thought this seemed like a great exercise, so I decided to try it. I took some deep breaths and asked myself what are the things I am dreaming of? What do I have in my heart that I would like to see become reality? It didn’t take very many deep breaths before I became aware that I didn’t have to rely on my imagination to realize my desires. There is a spiritual reality that is already in sync with what I am longing for. The spiritual truths about who God is are already true truths. Who I am in relationship to Jesus is a fact in the spiritual realm. I don’t have to stir up my imagination to guess how God is feeling about me, but I do have to receive the truth of his love. If I search for a change of emotion within myself, I feel even more defeated. My status as a spiritual being can transform my emotional state. I am a beloved daughter, not because of my imagination, but because of an all consuming fire that has sacrificed on my behalf.
So yes, I like this exercise, with a twist. I can feel lost when I focus on circumstances or finances or anything in the natural realm. But there is a greater spiritual reality that changes my emotional outlook in a second. I don’t have to rely on my own imagination to get here either. The deepest desires within each one of us are only a deep breath away from the spiritual realm.
Instead of asking humans to use their own efforts to imagine non-reality as reality, I’d like to ask the spiritual seekers that I interact with a couple other questions:
How would I feel differently if I understood my spiritual status? How would I react in this situation if I believed God’s dreams over me?
Enjoying the Mystery 