If your ‘realistic’ faith explains to me:
- what God hasn’t done
- what God won’t do
- why He won’t answer my prayer
- how others have failed
- why I should temper my expectation and scale down the scope of my prayer
. . . when God Himself has said, All things are possible to them that believe, then just shut up and go away.

But if in your realism you:
- declare the certainty of God’s word
- what He has done, and is doing
- strengthen me with your attitude of faith and courage
- express confidence in God and the Spirit of power and love
. . . now, I’m listening! Please, keep it up.

Why don’t we just reverse things? Hold as suspect and unlikely everything born of man’s reasoning from our faithless and perverse culture – and then, emphatically declare and affirm the truth of God’s word from a heart of courage and persevering faith? If we have trouble doing that, (believe me, we will all have trouble with this repentance) cry to God day and night. Pray. Pursue. Storm. Raid, Lay siege to Heaven’s gates until God’s realities – already birthed in our new man – are by faith and the Spirit forged and formed into the whole of our lives.

Yes, there are two apparent realities. And they are both true.
One is a reality of appearance, limited and distorted by man’s knowledge and perception. It’s ‘real,’ but perverted in the extreme. It makes you puke.

The other is the revelation of the all wise, all mighty God who created and upholds all that exists. He is revealed in His Son who perfectly explained, and displayed precisely what God means, who He is, and what He wants. All this is being communicated to us by the very Spirit of His life – eternal wisdom from (the unseen realm) above.

When you adopt and exhibit man’s ‘reality,’ you necessarily subjugate God’s. When you esteem God’s reality, you do not deny what men see, (and so appear to be a shallow simpleton) your merely choose, affirm and apprehend a superior reality. So choosing affords you the opportunity to join the Spirit of God, to unite with the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.

Why do you need to appear so clever and wise? The need to ‘balance’ or ‘reconcile’ God’s truth with man’s vacillating notions of truth makes you appear neither balanced or wise – but a fool. One who is unable or unwilling to let go of his own perceptions and humble himself to the simple ‘foolishness’ of the Gospel of faith in Christ is trying to cover all the bases. He is tentative, calculating, faithless.

So pick one. Choose this day whom you will serve. You cannot hold opposing or contrary ‘realities’ in your mind and heart without canceling the power of the greater. You cannot give them the same weight. “How long will you halt between two opinions?” Are you the old man dead in your sins? Or, the new man created in righteousness? Think, declare and act accordingly. Don’t tell me that both of those men can occupy the same stage – that makes me want to vomit.

Sure, we’re all at varying developmental stages of our faith. But no one whose faith is weak is excused from deliberately remaining so. We are in process and have not fully arrived. Pick one thing: “God loves me.” "God will not leave or abandon me.” “God’s plans for me are for good.” “Ask anything in My Name and it shall be done for you.” Whatever promise or truth you want God to increase in your life.

Now pursue that! Say it. Shout it. Sing it. Gather together every word God has said that reinforces that promise. Meditate over it. Cry to God to rain and shine on it. Thank Him continuously for working in you to accomplish His word. Refuse, reject, repel, every notion or thought that contradict what He has said, no matter how reasonable it feels or seems to you. Do this until the conviction in your heart says, YES, LORD, AS YOU SAY, SO IT IS. SO SHALL IT EVER BE.

Did I say, “Give thanks continuously? In case I didn’t, I’ll say it now. Keep giving thanks until you know He hears you. Keep praising and thanking until you are genuinely enjoying it, until joy overflows, until your heart is exuberant and gleeful. Then give that as an offering of delight. Don’t stop thanking and praising until your days are drenched with the dew of His presence and favor.

Praise the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save. Ps. 146

Don’t say that you’re not of the personality to make such offerings to the Lord. I’m not making this stuff up. What I have presented is only what the Lord tells each of us to do all through the Book. No matter your stage of Christian maturity, such daily offerings are entirely appropriate. Do it for one month straight. Don’t make excuses.

If you do not see real change, simply yield to that urge to punch this writer in the face. Or, if you really want to show him what for, just vomit on him.