Reality and the minds perception of reality are very rarely the same. The state of things as we focus our thinking on them is much more like the reflection of things as the really are but on the surface of rippling water. We tell ourselves that things are as we desire them to be. We tend to convince ourselves that our lives will go just as we wish them to go. There is no better example of this than when a person becomes infatuated with someone. Suddenly you believe everything they do is wonderful. You believe that all their motivations are righteous because you want them.
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. (2Pe 1:2-11)
It is not possible to truly live in reality without dedicating your thoughts to the invisible spiritual realm. You cannot truly live save you are living out the Word of God through your life. If you choose to see things with your own eyes you are blind and you will never cease to fall time after time. The abundant life is lived as an expression of our devotion to our Father in heaven!
