SPIRITUAL

I love the concept this engenders in people. We all have our idea of what spiritual is suppose to mean.

However that doesn't quite relate to what God means by spiritual. And that is sure an abused subject.

It is as if being spiritual means you are not corrupted by any bad thoughts, never sin or have a single desire to do something wrong. You are totally loving and spend every second only thinking about God.

A very wonderful and poetic view of spirituality, but not true in any way. Which is where the problem truly resides.

For to often we keep the idea of being spiritual in a vice grip of expectations. Not one in any way generated by the Lord.

Then we complicate things by deciding it is the way we should view others. Even if we don't actually conform to it ourselves.

It is true that there are gifts of the spirit. But it doesn't mean that we will act perfect because of them.

That is the confusion I think that prevails. We just get dependent upon thinking in terms of conforming to somebody's opinion even if it is wrong.

The thing is, to be spiritual is not about being other than human. It can empower and give one extra ways to serve the Lord, but it doesn't like eliminate your personality.

And when we stop being human, which is to be honest, we rob ourselves of a very critical part of being spiritual. God's spirit works through us, but doesn't make us His clones or zombies.

We are still able to have free will. Merely that He will augment our thoughts and actions in a way that will truly work His will.

What doesn't happen is that we suddenly stop sinning. I know some that would make that part of the nature of being spiritual.

What shines through is God's light, but we still have the same candle holder. It is not gong to be perfect or cleansed just because the light has a different source.

That is the part which is hardest to remember. To walk in the light, but that we are not the light.

Those who learn this always see God, those who don't stay in denial's darkness.