“We desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding” (Colossians 1:9b),

There is in our dimension of living things real, and things imaginary, fictional, artificial, and fanciful. Differentiating between these things at times is difficult. The more realistic things appear the more difficult it becomes.

The Apostle gave this exhortation to the Ephesians:

“This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds” (Ephesians 4:17).

In his Epistle to the Colossians, the Apostle expressed his desire that they might be filled with the “knowledge of His will”, with “all wisdom and spiritual understanding”.

The highest knowledge, wisdom and spiritual understanding we can obtain in our dimension of living is to come into the Reality of Christ. In this Reality we are transformed, and we are given an escape from the imaginary, fictional, artificial and fanciful. This Reality is not transient, but eternal; not temporary, but everlasting. This Reality comes to us from the Father:

“Who has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the Kingdom of His Dear Son” (Colossians 1:13).

The “power of darkness” operating by “the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience” (cf. Ephesians 2:2b) is a very deceptive power, indeed. “And no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light” (II Corinthians 11:14). Whether using the name of Christ, perverting the Gospel of Christ, using “signs and lying wonders” (cf. II Thessalonians 2:9), or “speaking lies in hypocrisy” (cf. I Timothy 4:2), the prince of darkness will do all in his arsenal of devices to keep us from The Reality of Christ.

There are attributes of The Reality of Christ that are disclosed to us in the Epistles of Paul, including these verses written to the Colossians:

Christ is “the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him and for Him. He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell” (Colossians 1:15-17, 19).

Coming into The Reality of Christ is a process of overcoming the deception, lies, and the power of darkness, the Devil, and abiding in the Truth. When we abide in the Truth, we receive an Anointing which as the Apostle John has written:

“The Anointing which you have received of Him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you; but the same Anointing teaches you all things, and is the Truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in Him” (I John 2:27).

“You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world” (I John 4:4).

Abiding in The Reality of Christ is an exercise of faith in those who are born of God.

“Whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith” (I John 5:4).

Beloved, live in The Reality of Christ for that is Life, true Liberty and Oneness with God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Live by faith, walk in love and believe in hope for all of life in this dimension and in the one that is to come.

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