January
14
I
can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength (Philippians 4:13 NLT).
Christ's spirituality
was not that He was remote from what was practical in everyday life. It was
that He was bringing heavenly forces and resources to bear upon the practical
matters of everyday life. You can wash doors, or clothes, or floors, or do any
of these ordinary domestic things, in spirituality. People seem to think that
spiritual work and ordinary work, household work for example, are two different
things. They talk about the spiritual work and the other work. Now, you can
bring heavenly resources in to do anything that is legitimate, and the doing of
those things may be a testimony.
The majority of people
have no occasion to draw upon heavenly resources for a platform ministry. For
the most part their work is of some regular, daily kind, and very often they
feel utterly unable for it, and they are tempted to think that if they had some
spiritual ministry to fulfill, if they had to go and take a meeting, or speak
to some souls about spiritual matters, they could make a claim upon the Lord
for help and He would carry them through. For the trivial round and common task
such a thought is all too often wholly absent from the mind. Now, exactly the
same resources have to come into the ordinary work as into what we call
spiritual work. It has all to be done on a spiritual basis, and therefore to be
a testimony. To get through an ordinary day's work often requires something
more than ordinary human resources. Spirituality consists in our doing
everything as out from heaven. Let us be careful how we draw a line, lest we make
a distinction between the spiritual and “the rest.”
By T. Austin-Sparks from: The Risen Lord
and the Things Which Cannot be Shaken - Chapter 10
This photograph is by Charlie Burnell.
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