Reaching Out to Reality
Scripture References: 2 Chronicles 7:14; Colossians 1:9-14
Kevin Klose went to Moscow in 1977 as bureau chief for the Washington Post. Over the next four years he made friends with many Russians. Back in Chicago, he maintained the friendships because the people had sacrificed so much to make them and faced retribution for continuing them. Whatever other factors motivated them, the Russians conversed with the American to fill a spiritual vacuum in their lives. They reached out to one who embodied the freedom, choice, values, and personal creativity they craved but their government callously denied. So they stood against what they abhorred to express a longing for what they admired.
Christians understand that search for reality. We seek God to find the truth and absolutes that this life advertises but never delivers, the values and ideals that philosophy, psychology, and society seek to produce but cannot. However good life is, we sense it is but a shabby imitation of true life in God’s son. Whatever pleasures we enjoy, we instinctively know they are but a shadow of the substance from another place. This is not our home however much we feel at home. We reach out through prayer, Bible study, and the quiet communion of the soul with the infinite God to that world where all is as it seems to be.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 