“O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me” (Psalm 43: 3 KJV).
Reality, both physical and spiritual, was established by God. He made both visible and invisible things that are real or actual. We experience physical reality through the senses of our body. We experience the spiritual through faith. And faith is dealing consciously with the reality of the supernatural. Man is the only creature on the planet that senses the existence of the invisible realm, which takes into account the here-and-now and the hereafter.
To have a realistic worldview would demand that we have a biblical worldview, for only the Bible gives us the truth about the visible and invisible realm. Martin Lloyd-Jones said, “If you want realism, go to the Bible.”
The Bible gives us objective reality. But if we don’t like the truth or objective reality, we can do as many have done and live in denial and with our imagination create our own subjective reality or alternate reality. But biblical reality does not cease to exist because we ignore it. And our imaginary reality exists only in our imagination as we assume through denial we can escape biblical reality. People who have created their own subjective reality are unrealistic and unreasonable because they have rejected the truth, which is the only ground for realism and sound reasoning.
The Bible explains clearly the existence of things not seen, such as God, angels (both good and bad), and Heaven and Hell. The God of the Bible really exists. There is both good and evil at work in this world. Heaven is a real place and has become a reality for Christians who have died and gone to be with Jesus. Hell is a real place and has become a reality for the lost that died without Jesus.
The one great reality is the ultimate reality, and that is the spiritual reality when the things that are unseen come into focus; when all the things that we denied were real become reality like God on Judgment Day and Hell. The physical reality where so many alternate realities were imagined is burned up when “the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up” and “there is a new heaven and new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness” (2 Pet. 3: 10, 13). During his afflictions Paul said he stayed focused on the unseen reality because it was the eternal and ultimate reality—“While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Cor. 4: 18).
There is only one true reality, and that is a biblical reality, and we are realists when we have a biblical worldview. All other realities, so-called, are alternate realities based on lies. It’s better to believe now that the unseen is real and trust Jesus Christ as our Savior and later enjoy the reality of Heaven for eternity.
