Fw: The greater reality

We define reality as we perceive it through our eyes and through the experience of our lives.  But our perception of reality is dwarfed by a greater reality.  That is the reality of the great God who made us.  There was a time when we were not yet here (by far...most of history).  There is a sliver of time while we walk the earth.  And then we return to dust and time rolls on.  And somehow we think that our reality...our experience...is the definition of reality.

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I think Moses was getting at some of this perspective in Psalm 90.  Here are a few key passages:

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90 Lord, you have been our dwelling place
    in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth,
    or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
    from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

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4 For a thousand years in your sight
    are but as yesterday when it is past,
    or as a watch in the night.

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10 The years of our life are seventy,
    or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span is but toil and trouble;
    they are soon gone, and we fly away.

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12 So teach us to number our days
    that we may get a heart of wisdom.

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I especially like how the psalm ends.  God and man together...this is the greater reality!

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16 Let your work be shown to your servants,
    and your glorious power to their children.
17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
    and establish the work of our hands upon us;
    yes, establish the work of our hands!

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blessings,

Rob Smith

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"Death is inevitable.  Life is a choice!"

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live."