Backstage

When I was younger, I enjoyed being a part of our school theatrical productions. Kids would get dressed up in costumes and act out their roles; the audience of relatives would watch the performance attentively and applaud enthusiastically. Meanwhile, there would be a lot of things happening backstage to make the whole production function.

I like to think of the Spiritual Realm as what happens backstage during a play. We can sense what goes on in this visible world. What is happening backstage is imperceivable, yet, it is integral.

“We look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” (2 Cor. 4:18 NIV)

Unfortunately, many of us  focus  only on what is perceptible. We often fail to acknowledge the level of organization and coordination that is happening in the spiritual realm. The stuff of this world--the roles we play, the props we use, the costumes we wear, the lines we say--all are fleeting. Whereas all that is happening just behind the curtain is enduring.