February
18
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly
realms because we are united with Christ (Ephesians 1:3 NLT).
Some people seem to think that spirituality is a
kind of mystical or mythical "something" – that spirituality is
something remote from reality, a kind of frame of mind. Well, spirituality is
certainly not a frame of mind in the first place. We speak of a calm and
heavenly frame... and there may be something of this kind as a fruit of it...
but spirituality is not a nebulous, mythical, or abstract thing. Spirituality is the most practical thing.
When men or women are called by God into some
piece of Divine ministry and, in the face of the demand, are conscious to the
last degree that they have no ability, no resource, no power to fulfill that
ministry, that in themselves the thing is utterly impossible, that for them to
essay to do it would be the utmost folly and absurdity – when in such
circumstances they recognize that they have a living Christ in whom are
resources more than enough to meet that demand... and by faith lay hold of Him
and go forward into the ministry with that consciousness... that is
spirituality; and that is practical, tremendously practical. The issues prove
that it is practical. It is in that way heavenly things are done.
This painting by Claudia Wood Rahm is called Surrendered.
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