Episode #4 – The Importance of Human and Spiritual Integration
As Christians we can tend to over spiritualize, and secular society tends to under spiritualize.
We need a paradigm by which to understand how to build a firm foundation that includes both human and spiritual maturity.
A healthy human maturity helps us break down and apply the spiritual information we take in. It helps us be refreshed by the Living Waters of the Lord and allows them to flow out of our lives in a way where they become part of who we are and how we live in relationship to others. To the truths of our faith, we ought to ask, “What does this have to do with me and how does it apply in my life?” We are called to let them pierce our hearts, renew our minds, and get applied in our lives.
We can see the pillars of wholeness and holiness in ‘connection’, that is: communion with the Lord, personal integration, and charity and compassion toward others. There are common principles across each of these relationships – chosen, known, valued, boundaries, and openness is a byproduct of those factors.
Oftentimes our relationship to ourselves gets overlooked and yet it’s really the hinge point. We need to really receive the infinite love of the Lord and imitate that love in how we relate to ourselves because that same mode of relating becomes how we relate to our neighbor, as Scripture tells us to love our neighbor the way we love ourselves (Mk 12:31). We operate out of fear when we lack a healthy sense of connection, and we operate out of love when we have that healthy connection.
The fruit of knowing we are chosen by the Lord is a sense of belonging, being known perfectly by Him provides us with the most profound intimacy, being established in the fact that our value is inherent in our dignity as children of God we have the fruit of humility, the Lord’s boundaries (His protection and provision for us) bears the fruit of gratitude, and the openness that is a byproduct of those four principles leads to the fruit of authenticity.
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