A Phrase I Hate

"My spiritual life is... (finish the sentence)"

Spiritual life? What spiritual life? If we are dividing up our lives based on subject then our faith is obviously not where it should be. Especially if "spiritual life" has to compete with athletics or twitter for example.

Basically, my point is that we treat our faith like a backpack. We wear it sometimes, but only for the important stuff, to carry a load. We put our struggles in, we put in the prayer, we get tired and our back starts to hurt, and then we hang it on the door and forget it for a few days, weeks, or months until we need it again. We keep it a separate entity from our friend groups and the rest of our lives.

But the shocker is that if we have a separate "spiritual life" and "physical life" then we have no "spiritual life" at all. Look at what 2 Corinthians 5:17 says: "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!" Our old creation, that separate sinful life that seems so enticing and fun is gone. Done. Cast away. In the dung heap. Outta here.

Becoming one with Christ isn't something that we can just give back when we feel like we don't need it anymore. It is consuming. It is everything. It is the only way to live life to the fullest. It is a joy and happiness that is so sweet it shouldn't be wasted on jokes [C.S. Lewis].

The further we go, the more we realize that our "spiritual life" is our whole life. My prayer is that we would realize that, and live it out.