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.