What does spirituality look like? How do you become a spiritual person?
Rom 12:1-3 "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned."
1Co 2:12-16 "Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. "For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ."
It's not some ethereal transcendent reach into the unknown, it is being conformed to the mind of the revealed Absolute Love, the creator, sustainer of life, embracing humility, being transformed to His image. Jesus Christ, Yeshua Messiah, Isa Al Masih. In Him all is complete. Rom 10:4 "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes."
"Being spiritual cannot be defined simply in terms of roping off and avoiding certain parts of creation- whether movies, cards, dancing or make up. .... While hating sin, we should exhibit a deep love for his world as God's handiwork, seeing through brokeness and sin to its original created goodness. We should be known as people in love with the beauties of nature and the wonders of human creativity.
Among the reformers it was Calvin who sounded the theme most consisistently. Whereas Plato explained the order of the universe in terms of abstract ideals (Matter is ordered by rational Forms), Calvin explained its order as a product of God's word or law of creative decree. The divine word gives things their "nature" or identity, governing both human life (moral law) and the physical universe (laws of nature). Modern people tend to place morality and science in completely different categories, but for Calvin both were examples of God's law. The difference is only humans must choose to obey the moral law, whereas natural objects have no choice but to obey the laws of physics or electromagnetism. If we look at the world through Calvinist eyes, we see God's law governing every element of the universe, God's word constituting its orderly structure, God's truth discoverable in every field" Nancy Pearcy
Total Truth Study Guide Edition p 84 Crossway 2005
Rom 12:9-10 "Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor."
Absolute Love is the Absolute example of spirituality.
Rom 12:1-3 "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned."
1Co 2:12-16 "Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. "For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ."
It's not some ethereal transcendent reach into the unknown, it is being conformed to the mind of the revealed Absolute Love, the creator, sustainer of life, embracing humility, being transformed to His image. Jesus Christ, Yeshua Messiah, Isa Al Masih. In Him all is complete. Rom 10:4 "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes."
"Being spiritual cannot be defined simply in terms of roping off and avoiding certain parts of creation- whether movies, cards, dancing or make up. .... While hating sin, we should exhibit a deep love for his world as God's handiwork, seeing through brokeness and sin to its original created goodness. We should be known as people in love with the beauties of nature and the wonders of human creativity.
Among the reformers it was Calvin who sounded the theme most consisistently. Whereas Plato explained the order of the universe in terms of abstract ideals (Matter is ordered by rational Forms), Calvin explained its order as a product of God's word or law of creative decree. The divine word gives things their "nature" or identity, governing both human life (moral law) and the physical universe (laws of nature). Modern people tend to place morality and science in completely different categories, but for Calvin both were examples of God's law. The difference is only humans must choose to obey the moral law, whereas natural objects have no choice but to obey the laws of physics or electromagnetism. If we look at the world through Calvinist eyes, we see God's law governing every element of the universe, God's word constituting its orderly structure, God's truth discoverable in every field" Nancy Pearcy
Total Truth Study Guide Edition p 84 Crossway 2005
Rom 12:9-10 "Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor."
Absolute Love is the Absolute example of spirituality.
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