It’s so easy to become a temporary idiot.

Let me explain. We have a lot of temporary truths, temporary likes and dislikes, and temporary loves, all discerned and distilled from a temporary world. It’s understandable. It’s right there in front of us. But if we accept these temporaries as most real and most important, we’ll grow dark about the grace and power of eternal life—the life of God in us right now. That truth. As a result, we’ll get lost to ourselves. We’ll forget who we are. We’re saved and born again, but the life of Christ in us seems absent. Think of it: Christ in you (Colossians 1:27), but you’re unaware. You’re struggling with a temporary addiction to the visible and temporary, and have gone blind and unfeeling to the invisible and eternal.

Fortunately, the way forward is not difficult for the temporary idiot. It’d better be easy because we’re temporary idiots—“Don’t expect much from me!”

So think about this. The change God made at your new birth made you as not-of-this-world as Jesus was (John 17:14-16). Do you believe that? It’s surprising. It’s the gospel. You actually are a new creation, not an old one—right now (2 Corinthians 5:17) tells you. And you actually are united with Christ at this very moment (1 Corinthians 6:17). You actually are in Him—never separated, always secure and heaven ready because you’re “seated in heavenly places” already (Ephesians 2:6). You live by faith in these truths of the gospel, which cannot be seen or found in the temporary world. While invisible, these truths are most real and eternal (2 Corinthians 4:16-18). This is why you talk with Jesus and look to the New Testament to find the eternal truth which makes evident the eternal life of God in you.

And the temporary idiot disappears, as the eternal son or daughter of God emerges—filled with the Spirt of life. You know who you are again.

2 Corinthians 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen (Why is that?), since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. The first makes temporary idiots, while the second brings forth the eternal son or daughter of God.

See you later.