Heaven stands open
And before us the One
Called Faithful
And True
His name
The Word of God
The Word
Who was in the beginning
The Word
Who was with God
The Word
Who is God
The Word with God
In the beginning
Through Him
All things were made
In Him is Life
Life
The light of man
Light
That shines in the darkness
Light
The darkness cannot
Comprehend
Light
The darkness has never
Overpowered or extinguished
Scripture tells us God raised Jesus up to the heights of heaven and gave Him a name that is above every other name. At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow. Every tongue shall confess Jesus is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:9-11 TLB).
God sent His Son to draw us out of the darkness of deception. And you may be surprised to learn, we are deceived quite often by what we perceive as natural and familiar – our very own eyes.
This AI overview states: Our eyes deceive us in many ways, including through optical illusions, distortion and early processing:
- Optical Illusions: Include literal and cognitive illusions that confuse the mind and its ability to interpret information
- Distortion: The brain uses context or background to interpret visuals signals, such as color, motion, texture and contrast, that often distorts causing the visual sensing system to be unreliable and subject to illusion.
- Early Processing: The brain interprets a two-dimensional image as three-dimensional, which can trigger an optical illusion. However, once the brain understands the illusion, it can no longer be deceived, so it’s difficult to be tricked again.
If our perceptions can be naturally affected to deceive us, how effective the deception to disregard the most important portion of our being – our spirituality? We need Clarity; we need Truth to perceive and understand how deceit and illusion and complacency hinders and prevents us from considering and looking into what lies beyond this physical three-dimensional world.
The reality, the substance is in Christ Jesus. For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of Righteousness, Peace and Joy in Holy Spirit, because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men (Roman 14:17-18).