What is spirituality? The word is only mentined once in the Bible. Jude 19. It means "to have God's spirit. Animals do not. They do not pray or give thanks before eating. Humans eat, sleep and reproduce like animals but we yearn for more. Genesis 1:27. We have a hunger to know our Creator.
Spirituality means to yield to God's spirit and a putting aside of our fleshly desires.
Man can have all his material needs filled but if his spiritual needs are not, he will die. That's what happened to Adam. He didn't continue to build his spirituality.
Matthew 4:1,2 Would Jesus yield to his fleshly desires even though he had not eaten for 40 days? Matthew 4:3,4 Jesus knew that life and happiness did not rely on literal food but in Obedience to Jehovah. Happiness comes from not doing our own will but Jehovah's will.
What is not spirituality?
Being sanctimonious, self righteous or showing off. wt February 1, 1933
Paul recognized that even though he'd been an apostle for some 25 years he still needed to continue building his spirituality. Phili. 3:12,13,16. We cannot base our spirituality on what we learned or did years ago.
The Brooklyn Bridge has been standing for 120 years but it took 14 trouble filled years to build it. Spirituality does not come overnight but Jehovah will help us. Draw close to God and he will draw close to you. Jude 20, 21.
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