I've been hearing and seeing a lot of claims regarding spirituality from people who claim to be spiritual but also claim to be "free spirits" who are working toward getting in touch with their "divine self". Whenever I see these kind of claims I cringe because I know the person speaking is still lost and filled with the same Satanic foolishness as were Adam and Even when Satan told them, "For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." (Genesis 3:5) They desired to be "as gods" and no wonder because all Satan's children seek the same thing. Satan himself wanted to be God, for he said, "I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High." (Isaiah 14:14)
Now there is a difference between our natural human spirit, which all human beings own, and that spirit which has been restored to communion with God. We all share a like human spirit which is why we can identify with one another. But this human spirit can never become divine! We do not seek to be gods, though we do seek godliness. Being godly is to be obedient to God's truth and God's will, it is not to seek its own apart from God. Paul tells us, "For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God." (1 Corinthians 2:11) So, yes, we can intimately know the things of men because we have the spirit of man, but only the Spirit (Holy Spirit) knows the things of God. But Paul goes on to say, "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God." (1 Corinthians 2:12) Though Paul is speaking directly of himself and those traveling with him, this applies to all Christians because we are the habitation of the Holy Spirit-- "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" (1 Corinthians 3:16)
True Spirituality can only be found through faith in Jesus Christ! It is He who has opened the way for our human spirits to undergo a miraculous and radical change administered by the Holy Spirit! To claim spirituality by any other means is sheer foolishness! The Bible says, "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." (Proverbs 14:12) If you are one of those who believes you are spiritual outside the saving truth of Christianity you THINK you are right, but the end is not good!
Let me take this a step farther. Even all Christians are not truly spiritual in their behavior. Positionally they have become spiritual beings but practically they are anything but... Paul wrote, "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ." (1 Corinthians 3:1) Here the Apostle is addressing a church that was filled with carnality. They were made positionally spiritual, but they were not acting like Christians should act. They were saved but they were not honoring God.
The point is there is only one way to be spiritual. First, one has to be MADE SPIRITUAL through God's work of regeneration, bringing the soul that is "dead in trespasses and sins" (Ephesian 2:1) to life "quickened" (Ephesians 2:5) at which time the individual can exercise the "gift" of faith (Ephesians 2:8) and believe the message of the Gospel unto eternal life. Then, through the power of the indwelling Spirit of God, "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." (Galatians 5:25)
No doubt there will be some who think themselves spiritual who will pay no heed to what I have just told you and continue in your vanity. I can only say, the word of God is true; advance at your own peril!
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