Walking a Tightrope Between Two Kingdoms

"For I do always those things that please him" (John 8:29)


We who follow Christ are aware of the fact that we inhabit at once two worlds, the spiritual and the natural.


As children of Adam we do live our lives on earth subject to the limitations of the flesh and the weaknesses and ills to which human nature is heir.


In the sharp contrast to this is our life in the Spirit. There we enjoy a higher kind of life; we are children of God. We possess heavenly status and enjoy intimate fellowship with Christ.


This tends to divide our total life into two departments, as we unconsciously recognize two sets of actions, the so-called secular acts and the sacred.


This is, of course, the old "secret-secular' antithesis and most Christians are caught in its trap. Walking the tightrope between two kingdoms they find no peace in either.


Actually, the sacred-secular dilemma has no foundation in the New Testament. Without doubt a more perfect understanding of Christian truth will deliver us from it.


The Lord Jesus Christ Himself is our perfect example and He lived no divided life. God accepted the offering of His total life and made no distinction between act and act. "I do always the things that please Him,: was His brief summary of His own life as related to the Father.


We are called upon to exercise an aggressive faith, in which we offer all our acts to God and believe that he accepts them. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there!


~A. W. Tozer~