"Spiritual" Activities

Joni Eareckson Tada



Have you noticed how some activities you do seems a lot more spiritual, more sacred, than others? Singing hymns, teaching church school, working at a soup kitchen or preparing a care basket for a sick friend.  All of these seem more exalted than other activities.  Even something as common as a holiday family gathering seems...sacred.
But what about when you drive to the Chevron station to fill your tank with gas? Or when you count out coupons to the clerk at the supermarket? Or while you're waiting for the salesperson to wrap your purchases?  Those activities seem far from spiritual and anything but sacred.
We do it all the time--separate "religious" activities into one group and "regular" into another.  But Leviticus 19 addresses that problem.  In one verse Moses says, "Do not steal" (vs. 11). Yet the verse preceding it states, "Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen."
Again he says in one verse, "Do not seek revenge...but love your neighbor as yourself" (vs. 18). And in the verse following? "Do not mate different kinds of animals" (vs. 19).
All activities for the glory of God





Why didn't Moses simply group together all the spiritual activities and leave the rest of those nonessential, nonspirtual things for another chapter?  Well, it's no mistake that God spoke all these commands in one breath, mingling "spiritual" and "nonspiritual."
God is telling His people to understand that all life is spiritual; all of life's activities come under His domain.  How we plow our fields, landscape our yard, or shop at the market.  How we mate our animals or even how we talk to a gas station attendant. Everything we do can be a way of worshiping Him.
Think about that next time you wash dishes.
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