The plane! The plane!

I am not exactly sure of all the reasons as to why so much of my thinking recently centers around being "real". One of the reasons, I am fairly sure about, is that I grew up in the midst of many pastors and spiritual giants being exposed for some pretty horrific things going on in their lives. Yet every week up until they had to come clean, they were still out there preaching the word of God like everything was peachy. I saw so much of that early on, that it actually was a one of the obstacles that delayed me for so long from acknowledging and embracing my call into the ministry. And I really believe one of the reasons that it happened to so many was the fact that they refused to live in and deal with reality. Often times we get our head so far in the clouds talking about vision and what we want to happen, that we jump off the reality ship and start living on fantasy island. Proverbs 28:19 says "He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty." If I am jobless, and I just keep telling anyone that will listen that one day I am going to land that dream job that pays 100k, and refuse to go work another job, I am foolish. We just talked about it last night. God may one day help you land that job. But I certainly do not see any way that he is going to bless you with that until reality is embraced and We're willing to work at the low paying job with all of our heart first. Paul never tried to cover up the fact he was in prison. He embraced his circumstances, his reality if you will, and allowed God to receive glory through it. Not every plane that flies by is our ticket to fantasy island. Let's work hard where we are and allow God to land the right plane in our life.