Sitting in the Dirt, as Praise to God!

This column just blows me away. I finish it and my heart says Yes, yes, yes! Jesus the Redeemer. I read this and I see how man, through the work of Christ is woven back into our Father's creation seemlessly as our father intended. It's the Gospel, the good news! To view it, not as secular and sacred, but now through Christ it can all be seen and used as God intended. Every atom is his and for his Glory. To see the Glory in the mundane...this is Christianity. Redeemed. Restored. I can spiritualize God right out of his Creation, I repent! I so need Christ to just blow out my compartmentalized walls and let his truths envelop all of my walk. "To be in submission to his word".
Colossians 1:15-20

Glory and MatterTopic: Old Table Talk Articles, Doug Wilson

The gnostic impulse lies deep with us, close to the bone. But God, in His mercy, has placed the resurrection of Jesus Christ right at the center of our faith...

...The gnostic impulse is this: whenever matter as such is disparaged over against that which is immaterial and "spiritual," we are being tempted to gnosticism. Of course it would be foolish to reject that which is truly spiritual -- the point has to do with how the word spiritual is rightly defined. When spiritual (as a term of praise) is assumed to be the opposite of material, we have a problem. But when the spiritual understood to be that which is in submission to the Word of God, we are on firmer ground.

...The devil is a spirit, a prince of the powers of the air, but this does not make him spiritual. But a man who makes love to his wife, with a biblical understanding, shows that his carnal act is a spiritual act. A man who helps a non-Christian neighbor plant some shrubs has real dirt under his spiritual fingernails. But many Christians have a definition of what it means to be spiritual which requires them to try to become more like the devil. You believe there is one God? Good for you, and the demons do that. True spiritual knowledge is exhibited in what you do with matter -- how you handle stuff...

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