The Spiritual/Material Connection
“Write what you see in a book
and send it to the seven churches”.[1] Here is the connection between the spiritual
world of God and the material world of man. A voice tells John to take the things
he is going to see in the spiritual realm and write them down into words that
can be received into the material realm. This connection of our
material/spiritual makeup as the one creature in Jesus’ image and likeness,
with the material/spiritual makeup of Scripture, brings a distinctive tremble
to the wondering heart.
Spiritual Measure for Spiritual Truth
Here
is the problem with science: it has no tools by which to measure spiritual realities.
Some arrogantly conclude that spiritual things do not exist. Others go looking
beyond science for spiritual indicators of spiritual truth. Those who turn to
the Bible discover that the greatest person in the spiritual realm has chosen
to make his impossible-for-science-to-find thoughts known in material words
that can be written down on material paper with material ink in a material
book. The world now has the most amazing connection between the spiritual and
the material: a material book of spiritual words that invite us into a
spiritual experience of the Spirit-God who created the material world. How do
we come to know God who is Spirit? Through his spiritual Son who became
material flesh and lived in our material world long enough to make a way for
material people to enter his spiritual kingdom.
Written to be Lived
John was told, “Write
what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches”.[2]
The churches are told to “read aloud…
hear… and keep what is written…”.[3]
John’s faithfulness to his side of the work of God urges us to the same
faithfulness on our side.
From One Wonder to Another
If anyone
wonders if God really made man from dirt, just look at what happens to us when
we die. Meditating on the work of Jesus Christ to form dirt into a man brings
about a whole other kind of wonder.
Comfort From the Cost
I
sometimes am bogged down with the hurt of people rejecting me because they
consider the cost of knowing me to be too high. Then I look at Jesus (Heb
1:2-3) and see my Older Brother stooping to gather dirt together to make the
first man (Gen 2). In his eternal mind is the consciousness that he will,
himself, one day take on a body of dirt in order to suffer all that it would
cost to finally have me for himself as a beloved brother (Eph 5:1-2; Heb 2:11).
The contrast between these two pictures is my great comfort.
God’s Word is a treasure. Jump in with both
feet, and receive what God has given.
From my heart,
From my heart,
Monte
© 2013 Monte Vigh ~ Box 517,
Merritt, BC, V1K 1B8 ~ in2freedom@gmail.com
Unless otherwise noted, Scriptures are from the English Standard Version (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.)
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