Have You Been Red-Pilled?

These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. Colossians 2:17 (NIV)

In the movie “The Matrix” a man named Neo is given the choice to remain as he is, unchanged, or to have his eyes opened unto reality. If He takes the blue pill nothing changes, yet if he takes the red pill everything will be changed.

I see this terminology used on conservative message boards and forums. They say that someone who was a liberal and wakes up to the dangers of liberalism, becoming a conservative, has been “red-pilled”.

In a much bigger way everyone who becomes a Christian is red-pilled. We are awakened to our sinful, lost state of being, and we are reborn with eyes fully opened to truth and a new reality. We are red-pilled in the best possible way.

With our eyes wide open we can see beyond today’s pain and misery, beyond the struggles and disappointments in life. We can recognize that we live in an imperfect sin-sick world that is not permanent and was never meant to be. Likewise we abide in imperfect, sick, diseased bodies that are impermanent dwellings that are short-lived.

Nevertheless one day we will have a reborn body to match our reborn spirit. What is temporary will give way to the permanent, the broken and impure to the whole and everlasting. We were made for glory, and having been “red-pilled” our perspective has changed. We look beyond what can be seen to the unseen, the great promise of glory awaiting us because of Jesus Christ.

Prayer: Lord Jesus, let us never forget all that You have done for us, and help us to never get our eyes so focused on this world and its problems that we fail to realize something better awaits us in Your kingdom. Amen.

Karlton Douglas

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