A short reflection by Brent Snyder on Christ as our life.
Transcript
We have been trained to call what we can see reality. The job, the body, the building, the crisis, the clock—these seem solid because we can touch them. Scripture quietly reverses this. The things seen are temporary. The things unseen are eternal. Hebrews even speaks of earthly things as copies and shadows of heavenly realities. Perhaps we have mistaken the shadow for the substance. Christ is the Reality. The visible world is not meaningless, but it points beyond itself. Bread hints at the Bread of Life. Light whispers of the true Light. Human life itself points toward the One who said, “I am the life.” Prayer begins opening our awareness to this other realm. We do not escape the visible world; we discover what stands behind it. Then Christ becomes more substantial than circumstances. We begin walking among shadows while increasingly living from the Reality that casts them.
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