The Dvotional - 094 - Just what is Spirituality

A Thought for the Day – 094 – Just what is Spirituality

 

Proverbs 22:9 – Where is your eye today? Is it aimed in the direction of the lust of the flesh; or has pride overtaken your duty to walk spiritually with the LORD. If so you need to cease from this activity. How is it that you do not ask why? Because you know why; but there is a problem ahead, someone you know is in need and without the bountiful eye of the Spirit of God you will miss God’s intended blessing for you.

 

Comments and challenges

When we go to any function, Christian or Secular we knowingly involve our self with people. In the Christian get togethers we believers tend to relax our guard and move freely through the groups of saints without thoughts of lust or pride and I believe that these are the two main avenues that can trip up a saint of God at any given moment. Pride can cause dissipation, anger and separation and lust will cause weaker saints to stumble and even fall from the grace of God. Sin always develops in the mind before it is expressed through the heart as the soul, where the Holy Spirit dwells is bypassed.

In the secular realm the saint of God is a more aware of his or her surroundings and the uniformed clothing of the Helmet of Salvation is the Spirit who is guiding us, the Girdle of Truth is causing us to stand in integrity, the Breastplate of Righteousness is Christ in us our hope. Our shoes of the gospel of peace are prepared to go to the one who we have been praying for. Our shield of faith is in front of our eyes to keep us from the lust of the flesh and the pride of life. We feel that we are ready because we are fulfilling the command of Ephesians 6:10-18 and Romans 13:11-14.

Then all seems well, in the Christian activity or in the Secular one, there is another side of the coin. It is the person whom you may have met before who is charming; they often are new to the gathering and always seem to be alone at tables or outside the group. Your heart responses; oh I need to go talk to her or him and let them know they are a part of the group or function. We should be warned and take with us another person, don’t go it alone it is an evil to go it alone. It is not sin at this point, but it is a potential for sin and that is why I call it evil, meaning sin is present.

You say; hogwash I can handle those situations, okay maybe you have been doing okay, sin has no mercy, it destroys ones relationship with God; immediately; and the your recovery is not immediate; why expose the intended person to lust. That person will react to your advances. If our intention is a prideful remark in a one on one conversation this sin will cause separation and dissipation if not checked quickly, it often is spreads to others, even to the point of division within the church or secular relationships.

Of course if your conversation with another is lustful, the reaction of the other person may be positive, they may have been waiting for just the opportunity to get involved. These are evil moments in the lives of people; both the unbelieving and believing can get caught up in evil. Now I am not talking of things that we do not know, but I am talking about our failures in the things that we do know. These often happen and to say that these things do not happen we are being “artless” in our walk daily walk with the LORD.

Artless is another way of expressing the condition or definition of being naïve. Being naïve is KNOWINLY skirting the edge of responsibility and in the case of the saint, we have the responsibility to walk in Wisdom; that would be carefully or as Ephesians 5:15-21 states; CIRCUMSPECTY wow; now there is a word that can take a bite out of your upper lip! Circumspectly has this meaning; to be careful or cautious. In this passage of scripture there are at least five commands to carefully in the Holy Spirit. So I challenge you to take a few moments in time today to study our responsibility to be spiritually minded at all times and in all activities. THE LORD IS AT HAND.