Are you For Real?

The Velveteen Rabbit, discussed the question of the reality of a person or velveteen rabbit, as the case may be.
Throughout life, with trial and error to guide us, we learn that there are safe and unsafe people to expose ourselves to. Some books show us characters that can help us be discerning, as well as the Holy Spirit and the Bible's wise direction. We are all camouflaged in so many layers. God's people are camouflaged and show only a portion of their reality to the world. We are, in reality, seated in heavenly places with Christ and we look to be struggling and poor and needy and all too often sorry, yet God has chosen to cover us for His Glory, that He alone and those with Him can see the glory of the life in the presence of God.

"Tis only the glory of light, that hideth Thee"

God is hidden under the clothing of the light, which is dimness of the goodness of His true and real presence. The closer we get to His presence we realize how He is covered for our own protection. God is good and far better than He even shows Himself in our human vision. He is far more good than we can even know. His goodness is hidden. In our dark providences, it is hidden under the imagination that we think He doesn't care. In our comfortable providences it is hidden in the mistaken imagination that we deserve His goodness showered upon us. He is the best clandestine. He loves us more than we can sense. How great is the Father's love upon us, that we should be called the children of God. It is a hidden truth and no matter how many layers of that truth we uncover, there are an infinite number of layers to unwrap of His goodness.
Those who know Him not in the pardon of their sins in Christ, are hidden in His present goodness from the reality of the wrath of God hovering over their heads. God is too good to condemn them without a trial. God is too good to even give them a glimpse of their real condition without tempering it with the offer of His manifold grace in Christ.

The world is spinning and you, as the ballet dancer, through life must stay focused on your identity in Christ, to keep from tumbling down and hurting yourself.
Do not give your strength to women, says the mother in Proverbs 31. Do not think that any person on earth can hold your true identity and love you like God. He alone can know the real you. Treasure those who love you in truth and reality and do not deceive yourself that you are better than you are. There is no better place to be than redeemed. The icing of his comforts are pleasures, but He is better than that.

Why did God make you and all things? For His own glory.