SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF

Spider Man shoots his webs and swings from one skyscraper to another, chasing the Green Goblin as he soars away with his beautiful captive. In the movie theater, hearts are racing, eyes are fixed on the screen, breaths are held.

Nobody leaves the Cineplex planning to try jumping from one skyscraper to the next. The enjoyment of movies depends upon on willingness to believe what our logical mind knows is impossible.

“We live by faith, not by sight.” 2 Cor. 5:7

Wikipedia defines suspension of disbelief as, “a willingness to suspend one´s critical faculties and believe something surreal; sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment.” In life, if we are willing to look beyond sheer logic, it becomes easier for us to enter by faith the realm of the Spirit where the impossible is possible.

In conventional reality it´s often said that seeing is believing, but in spiritual reality that saying is reversed: first there is believing and then seeing. Suspension of disbelief will allow us to see illogical but miraculous real things.