Every religious system has a list of activities which offer the way to touch the depths of true spirituality or spiritual substance. In any religious community one must practice all the items on the list if one wants to be taken seriously as a true seeker of spiritual substance.
Those who do not see the group’s governing list as essential and fail to faithfully practice the list will be looked upon as spiritually less and in some religions suffer rejection or worse.
Once a person accepts the list as the way to spirituality and begins to practice it faithfully that person becomes a slave to whoever wrote the list. The desire to find our list and practice it runs deep in the human heart. So deep, in fact, that we cannot truly rest until we feel we have touched true spirituality.
Jesus said in John 14:6 that He was the way, the truth and the life and that no man comes to God but by Him. Jesus is the list that God wrote that directs to true spirituality. Jesus is all God demands of us in order to touch spirituality. This is why we can say “Jesus is all”.
If we want to touch true spirituality we must connect to Jesus as the list of all God requires of us. Touching this true spiritual substance is called being ‘of Christ”. Staying in the connection is called being “in Christ”.
We must become slaves of Jesus and Jesus alone. He is the source of the spiritual substance we long to touch. Abide in Him and you are touching all the spiritual substance that God offers.
So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. Colossians 2:16-17
Bud McCord
Abide International
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