Kingdom's Keys Fellowship
Where God's Kingdom Meets Man's Heart.
Every Next Moment Counts
What are doing this minute? Where are you? Can you translate your activity and place spiritually? Can you interpret your circumstance from a spiritual perspective?
Thinking spiritually is the meat and potatoes of being a disciple of Jesus in a world of super market values. If you look out into space and think spiritually you will find that space is just a copy of something much larger, more real and infinitely personal. Just the pattern inherent in the physical universe is simply an introduction to ponder an endless variety of spiritually nuanced experiences that are part of the life beyond our five senses. That life stretches in the endless magnitude of self-consciousness, relationship, love, joy, peace, discovery and expanded thought. Just the way this kind of thinking starts as these words are being written points to a depth of experience that overshadows the already complex pondering about the physical space-time box encasing our bodies.
And what about evil and all the bad stuff in the world? Evil demands an answer. Jesus came to give the answer, to live the answer and to be the ongoing answer. Jesus thought spiritually and made His choices and decisions in faith, faith in His Father and faith in His Spirit.
Separating evil from the person of Jesus is how we reorganize the way we think moment by moment. But it is not the lonely task of navel gazing until we get it right. That is exactly what the devil wants. What Jesus did was to take the power of self-centeredness to the Cross so that when He died the power died with Him. Sin narrows, love widens. He died to free us from sin so that we could open up to God, thinking, living, loving and breathing spiritually.
He did this with three reasons in mind.
The first was to displace the power of sin, which separates us into eternal aloneness. Only He had the power to do this.
Second, it was to recover for us access to His Father and our Father, a relationship we lost by Adam’s disobedience.
Third, it was to give us that unique spiritual quality of faith to separate His presence in us from the merciless self-centeredness of sin that has hardened the heart within preventing us from believing, thinking and acting spiritually.
The power of faith brings us the mind of Christ, the heart of Christ and the Spirit of Christ. Thinking spiritually, thinking Jesus, thinking God, thinking of ourselves and others as spiritual realities gives us a whole different perspective from the lonely frustrating search into self. Thinking Jesus takes us into real life, the interpersonal reality that grows us out of ourselves.
Personal growth happens as I go out of myself and into Jesus, out of myself into others, out of myself into the Spirit of God. What we discover as we think spiritually is that the more we go out the more we find within. The closer we come to Jesus the closer we come to ourselves. The closer we come to others the closer we come to our eternal purpose, which is to love God, love others and to be loved in return. Thinking spiritually is thinking relationally toward God and others. We are stretched within by faith and expanded without by love, all taking place because that is the spiritual means Jesus uses to recover us, His spirituality, the Holy Spirit spirituality.
What are you doing and thinking right now? Are you spiritually prefacing these next moments?
Tomorrow, hands on spirituality, being spiritually practical.
Thinking spiritually is the meat and potatoes of being a disciple of Jesus in a world of super market values. If you look out into space and think spiritually you will find that space is just a copy of something much larger, more real and infinitely personal. Just the pattern inherent in the physical universe is simply an introduction to ponder an endless variety of spiritually nuanced experiences that are part of the life beyond our five senses. That life stretches in the endless magnitude of self-consciousness, relationship, love, joy, peace, discovery and expanded thought. Just the way this kind of thinking starts as these words are being written points to a depth of experience that overshadows the already complex pondering about the physical space-time box encasing our bodies.
And what about evil and all the bad stuff in the world? Evil demands an answer. Jesus came to give the answer, to live the answer and to be the ongoing answer. Jesus thought spiritually and made His choices and decisions in faith, faith in His Father and faith in His Spirit.
Separating evil from the person of Jesus is how we reorganize the way we think moment by moment. But it is not the lonely task of navel gazing until we get it right. That is exactly what the devil wants. What Jesus did was to take the power of self-centeredness to the Cross so that when He died the power died with Him. Sin narrows, love widens. He died to free us from sin so that we could open up to God, thinking, living, loving and breathing spiritually.
He did this with three reasons in mind.
The first was to displace the power of sin, which separates us into eternal aloneness. Only He had the power to do this.
Second, it was to recover for us access to His Father and our Father, a relationship we lost by Adam’s disobedience.
Third, it was to give us that unique spiritual quality of faith to separate His presence in us from the merciless self-centeredness of sin that has hardened the heart within preventing us from believing, thinking and acting spiritually.
The power of faith brings us the mind of Christ, the heart of Christ and the Spirit of Christ. Thinking spiritually, thinking Jesus, thinking God, thinking of ourselves and others as spiritual realities gives us a whole different perspective from the lonely frustrating search into self. Thinking Jesus takes us into real life, the interpersonal reality that grows us out of ourselves.
Personal growth happens as I go out of myself and into Jesus, out of myself into others, out of myself into the Spirit of God. What we discover as we think spiritually is that the more we go out the more we find within. The closer we come to Jesus the closer we come to ourselves. The closer we come to others the closer we come to our eternal purpose, which is to love God, love others and to be loved in return. Thinking spiritually is thinking relationally toward God and others. We are stretched within by faith and expanded without by love, all taking place because that is the spiritual means Jesus uses to recover us, His spirituality, the Holy Spirit spirituality.
What are you doing and thinking right now? Are you spiritually prefacing these next moments?
Tomorrow, hands on spirituality, being spiritually practical.
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