Part 9 - Real Spirituality

It is not the nature of what you do that determines the spirituality of any action, but the origin of what you do. There was never a moment in the life of the Lord Jesus that was without divine significance, because there was never anything He did,or said, or step He took which did not spring from a divine origin. There was nothing in His life that was not the activity of the Father in and through the Son. He lived out thirty-three years of availability to the Father, so that the Father in and through Him might implement the program that had been established and agreed upon between the Father and the Son before the world was ever created.

Why did the Father give all things into the Son's hands ? Because Jesus Christ was completely Man, and He was completely Man because He was completely available. For the first time since Adam fell into sin, there was a man on the earth as God intended man to be ! So which of His activities was more "spiritual": preaching the sermon on the mount, raising Lazarus from the dead, or washing the disciple's feet ? The answer of course is that no one activity was more spiritual than another, for all had their origin in the Father, who acted through the Son. That is why Jesus could say, "I always do those things that please Him" (John 8:29)

Jesus summarized this in John 14: 10 - "Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me ? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works." In other words, "I have presented My body to the Father who lives in Me, that He may do His works in My body. My Father does His works through His Spirit in Me, and through His Spirit I have offered Myself without fault to My Father."

The whole activity of the Lord Jesus on earth as Man was the Father's activity in the Son, through the eternal Spirit, as He presented His body to the Father through the Spirit. This is also true for us ! Our spirituality is simply our availability to God for His divine activity , and the form of this activity is irrelevant.
There is nothing more beautiful, more holy, more positive or constructive, than Jesus reflected in us !

If it pleases you, always and only, to do what pleases God......you can do as you please !

Jesus of Nazareth went about doing good for God was with Him. Acts 10: 38.

How eager are you to do whatever pleases God ? Come back next week for some more inspiration.