The Spiritual Implications in Life

Sister Joan reminded me in another thread that everything that happens to us in life has spiritual implications. I was blessed to hear her say this and commented the following:

"Amen, Amen, everything has a spiritual component to it, and often we look only at the feelings or the circumstances and miss the spiritual."

When we think superficially based on feelings and desires, we are going to miss God's truth that goes deeper and more profound.

 
Life has so many lessons for us when we delve deeper into the matters of life to find the lesson that transforms our thinking and brings intense wisdom and understanding.

 
Being satisfied with the superficial will keep us bogged down in misunderstandings and false doctrine without the ability to discern truth from error.

2 Timothy 4:3-4 " 3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.…"

Jealousy, anger, outbursts of wrath, and much more are generated from a heart that dwells on feelings and a need to be superior to others.

 
1 Timothy 4:1-2 "Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron."

Titus 1:10-11 "For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision, who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not."

Empty talk, that being senseless bantering about things that do not matter, or deliberate misinterpretation to be able to assess things so they elevate the one who is madly in love with themselves.

 
The whole world is this way now. Only those who are born-again can escape the temptation to mistakenly and deliberately interpret things according to our own desire to hate someone or something.

 
The Holy Spirit in us will cause conviction in others that motivates them to hate believers. Satan is working hard in these last days to destroy Christians or at least their witness in the world by turning the world against them.

 
1 Peter 5:7-9 "…7 Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. 8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9 Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering."

When we know these things, we can remain joyful, hopeful, and ready with an answer without false guilt when someone becomes offended over silly things.