All earthly occurrences are perceived strictly by their impact on those affected by them. Fatefully, many of God’s people people link and analyze existence physically but these evaluations are utterly the opposite of spirituality. As things are depicted in styles, forms and contents as scenes of happenings in everyday life, they are frequently interpreted as illogical when they are solely judged in their temporary expressions. However, things are consistently stabilized when they are comprehended in their “actualized sphere” in eternality. The larger part of human evaluations exudes vague, unfavorable impressions because such strictly rely upon what is physical (seen) rather than what are spiritual (unseen). Hence, what many of us “see” and devotedly “embrace” motivate what we heed materially, as responds to what are essentially “eternal intentions.” In this spiritual emptiness, resolutions that God’s people petition Him for are unrecognizable because earthly evaluations only acquaint in reactionary-isms to “physical comprehensions.”
Absurdly, the most domineering perceptions of existence are the deceptive and dreadful assertions alluded in assembling these distorted life resonances. Such allege that God’s favors and apportionments of blessings and privileges are inclined to one’s conditional “faithful obedience to God.” Here, this chief claim allures a “reward” system infused in enabling God’s granting of “yearnings,” most particularly, the possessions of perishable goods. However, this demonstrates in a very condescending way, so-called “meritorious trickle down blessings.” The trendily repeated saying: “hope and hope again against the enemy, the Devil, whose game plan is to deny you all the pleasures that are promised in the kingdom;” is a deceptive pitch when such is presented as vital to our challenges or hope for success. These distortions conflict with the Grace Scriptures’ actual messages that human efforts do not influence what actually “happens” (manifests) in any manner whatsoever.
God’s predetermined Will according to His Eternal Purpose is the only controlling factor in evaluating life’s occurrences. Agonizingly, God’s people are unaware of this important fact. Consequentially, when diverse “crises” arise, this lack of knowledge causes us to misperceive what just God’s intentions are in coursing our lives. These misperceptions thrive in depicting shallowness in humanistic assessments and flawed discernments of spiritual knowledge. Involuntarily, all in physicality inevitably wavers in subjection to the unremitting issues of depraved creation (Romans 8:20). Materiality fails even the least rigorous examinations of encouragement or support because none of it lasts forever.
Materially prevailing mindsets reside in the masses predominately as the results of their view that salvation is acquired through “choices” of humanistic assessment rather than God’s election. However, if humanistic participations were the means, who could merit any security in salvation? There is not even one single piece of the human dilemma that can chart such unreliable courses. Distressingly, the majority of us are so absorbed with “right now” that few of us are even thinking about the intricate measures of their abiding future. Though there is indeed adequacy of provisions in the Grace Scriptures, detailed study of God’s Word is deemed as too rigid or too laborious and is thus not strictly relied on for any secured eternal information. Thus, the genuine “spiritual bottom” of stability in the terrain of Time is non-evident against the raging measures of disorders on the earth.
As the limited effectiveness of prioritizing the struggles and sufferings of this present life are comprehended; spiritual knowledge renders all daily encounters secondarily to our everlasting abiding existence, in the Heavenlies, in Christ (Ephesians 1:3). Even though there are not any worldly headlines focusing on eternality, its authenticity is scripturally believable, which is really all that matters. What are attached in the minds of too many of God’s people are not the eternal comprehensions but minimally, earthly, even though well-intended intuitions expressed in “recycled religious patterns.” Ridiculously, these so-viewed “soaring dialogues” are deemed valid and embraced hardily as opportunities for articulating our “pressing needs” but they are scripturally deficient in crucial times. Their perpetrators acclaim: “oh how well this resonates in this life!” In stark contrast, the Grace Scriptures commune how delightfully secure we are when our comprehensions apprise us that we were eternally son-positioned in Christ!”
It is catastrophic that such insecurity and instability dominate and inevitably interject in God’s people such subconscious distrust of God’s Will by what is perceived physically by them. These prospects of life in the long run are dimmer than what reality manifests. On the other hand, such scriptural ignorance is painful for those who are informed that we are indeed heirs of God and joint heirs of Christ. The champions of futility constitute vast bands of “practical idealists” whose sole campaign is rooted in the idea that “earthly experiences are what count the most right now.” Ironically, the railings against eternal priorities induce precisely these shaky experiences of insecure moments, wherein such disillusions dwell. As communities prioritize in physical life, secularity solely undertakes movements in messages about citizenry actions and assembling coalitions for “forcing changes” in worldly authorizations. This is sheer folly and absolutely disappointing when such is relied on for effectuating the flow of life’s expectancies.
The religiously fashionable advocacy that “things rely on human input is unscriptural in every sense. Too many of God’s people embrace the mimicking phrase: “even though things flow from the top down, we believe that determinations come from the bottom up so change will come only as you believe.” Even though, this is accepted by many as an inspirational principle, it simply misperceives physical “transactions” as either shaped or altered in the course of secular levels. Meagerly, these proponents misperceive human capacities and consequently its inadequacies incite fear. Secularity clutches naturalistic systems based on human characteristics, as such is considered as best appropriate for necessities. In this logic, physicality rather than spirituality is represented as realistically the ultimate game-changer in life’s particulars.
Contrarily to this view, so-deemed “practical secularities” portray impressions of having history’s backings yet also exhibit history’s burdens of wavering concerning the spiritual needs, well-beings and interests of God’s people. Sober examination and assessment of physical life’s seemingly unrealistic impact on existence connectedly plead the case that things are never as suitable as they are necessitated. When scripturally tested, all secularly intellectual indulgences and illusionary philosophies inevitably falter because none are of “abiding stability.” Scriptural intelligence resounds in exemplifying eternal edification, by appealing not to the “flesh” but in echoing true “spiritual enlightenment.” Secularity’s folly bodes eerily in physicality’s swerving causes, which emits detachments all from eternal occupation. Unrealistic proclamations of liberation through the whims of “secular edifications” entail focusing below the radar of genuine spiritual liberation, thus creating social alienation from the invisible Heavenlies in favor of the visible earthly. Loyalties to this spiritual despondency define the secular forces committed in provoking such atrocities, which drive God’s people to improvise insecure disordered stipulations.
These approaches into secularity employ the designation: “proclamation of practicality” yet these ideological commitments to humanism are opposed by the Grace Scriptures. The popularity of secularity conveys counsel for lightly esteeming the eternally unseen, which eventually becomes a platform for so-called “provisional indefinite durations.” Secularity is fretfully aware of the resistive forces, which encourage scriptural invasion as the major offensives against the alleged viabilities of physicality. Genuine spirituality exhibits what viably escapes the encirclements of physicality by departing such through eternality.
A scriptural allegiance, in opposition to ever increasing loyalties to materially embraced odds and ends transcends and abidingly defies all the bits and pieces of temporariness. The appeal of secularity allures allegiances to durations of temporary provisions in time rather than abiding subsistence in eternity. Embellishing secularity in effect enacts the major opposition to liberation from influences of the visibly seen. The Grace Scriptures focus from comprehensions viewed entirely in the horizontal sphere and adapt against invasions by the disorders of depraved creation. Hence, their enlightened conveyances exhibit alliances of defenses, disintegrating prioritization of focusing in secular spheres. In extensions of these subsequently revealed dominances of the eternal Heavenlies’ view, all opposition to genuine spirituality is overruled.
When God’s people solely rely on eternal things for their continuous joy, they formulate into less burdensome earthly disappointments. Incidents appropriated by misconstruing temporary negative allusions in the time orb appear hostile to the surety of foreordained arrangements. Eternal determinants in every respect stabilize and rectify those reluctant to acknowledge incorrectness of their opposition to sole deified causative or attributive factors in their present life situations. Secularity compellingly poses mitigating factors in the manifestation of current events, as though they are authorized decisions dispensed by the workings and whims of depraved creation. Notice Ephesians 4:14 statement, “that no longer we may be children, being tossed by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, by the sleight of men, by craftiness with methodical deception.” This passage unequivocally assesses refutations of all ill conceived patronizing of secularity infused in physicality.
Physicality manifests strictly what are distinctly illustrated as non-deified powers forming or dissolving things in the forces of self-motivated capacities. This is viewed in contrast to the prior assignment and arrangement in every course of existence in eternal design, according to God’s sovereignty. Eternal interests are never altered like the dramatically humanly perceived changes. God’s eternal determinations rather than individual human behavioral tendencies, misconstrued as willpower are what solely source manifested occurrences. Relevancies in physicality exert psychological identifications with human’s allurements, which merely coordinate designations of the various boundaries enjoined to champion it. This references passionate support of secular causes, factions, persons or ideas in physical undertones; embracing only what is naturally seen in prompting feelings of support or approval for them.
Contrary to the more popular consensus in human thinking, no applications of secularity are conducive to “an easier life on earth” because such interconnections cannot radiate lasting joy. When the essence of physicality is assessed according to the Scriptures, it adds up simply based on humanly perceived experiences of the ages during temporary associations. Such unreliably displays and merely interprets styles and expressions of topics from unscriptural viewpoints. These employments of partiality are responsive only in exhibiting accounts of non-thorough motives, couched in depraved pessimism. In these views, dwelling in existence is erroneously identified and masterfully altered to a deceptively compared illusion of blissfulness. Such misperceptions of human processes interpret and organize flawed information to their extreme extent yet they do not radiate “the joys of living," as has been and are so successfully and cleverly disguised. Eagerly embraced in resonating forms as the “real deal,” such are viewed as impressions within intellectual situations.
Heartrendingly, such senselessness is today’s visually designed mainstream regulating humanly inspired patterns. Such are embraced by too many of God’s people as their absolute privileges and hence are employed based on religious systems that insist on immunity from any opposing challenges! Today, there is a consensus of secularity’s proponents supposedly authenticating these distortions courageously without challenge. Incredibly, they assert self-determinative privileges of freedom from the ills of depraved creation but their illusions defy even the naturalistic conventions. In spite of their gross inconsistencies, these so-called “entitlements” are credulously embraced by the masses through their utterances of certain codes purportedly endorsing God’s promises to “His people.” However, such “privileges” should be expelled because of their breaches of testimonies including evidence of similarly flawed models of impractical applications. There is great potential for abuse in these damaging allegations, which are void of any scrutiny for determining whether such abide consistently within the framework of the Grace Scriptures.
God’s people’s gullibility in secularity exhibits their human love for the exaggerations of humanly viewed identities. However, spirituality is the knowledge based entity by which God’s people are enlightened in the Heavenlies’ viewed identities! I Corinthians 2:6-7 states, “and we speak a wisdom among the mature but a wisdom not of this age, neither of the rulers of this age who are coming to naught; but we speak a wisdom of God in a mystery ……………...that which has been hidden, which God foreordained before the ages unto our glory.” Note that “wisdom” in this verse conveys specific wisdom of God that is reserved for the sole comprehension of certain designees of God’s people, even among small groups in the present church (Grace) age.
It is clear from these verses’ emphases that this comprehensive “spiritual wisdom,” i.e., what is revealed by the spirit (Galatians 5:16), is exact knowledge among “the mature.” Also, this wisdom is “not of this age,” which is further identified in its distinction from secularity, as such knowledge is not from, i.e., “neither of the rulers of this age who are coming to naught.” Finally, though this is what has been previously hidden, it is also that “which God foreordained before the ages unto our glory.” Accordingly, the message of grace exhibits spiritual attractiveness, as well as eternal pleasure, drawn exclusively on acknowledged truth, concisely flowing against the grain of secularity.
Hence, whatever is most delightful is exceedingly most enduring. What is unshakable is even more than that which is long-lasting or surviving, which is permanent; even more than what is steadfast. Secularity inevitably fails in qualifying what unending statuses imply. Spiritual perceptions of abiding realities automatically exert harmonious actuality. Essentially, actual existence underscores testimonies manifestly playing roles in eternal purposes. To the farthest extents of life’s allegories, spiritual enlightenments distinguish between naïve gullibility and assurance of God’s decreed reason for which something exists or for which it has been done or prepared. Pure trust in God’s Will always exhibits reliance that personal agendas are inevitably nil. Spiritually resonating, unconditional trust triumphs over the frivolous visions of the world. Eternal conceptions of tragedies reject hyper involvement and interject informed under-involvement in comprehension of the ultimate good, which is not assessed as awful but the designed propose of God’s eternal intent.
Spiritual knowledge exposes the pretentiousness imitations of imageries distorting life’s courses by depicting humankind’s determinative input as though such establishes what happens. Reality is the unseen manifesting experiences of spiritual actuality. In addition, scriptural provisions of the spiritually unseen abide beyond what is secularly concealed underhandedly to avoid adequate examinations. Secularity advances naivety without concern for understanding the scriptures. Misaligned observations about contradictions of life-viewing inhabitances connect the experiences of conflictions that shape particular attitudes for interpreting things in a particular way. Though secularity might extract what seems interesting, it merely portrays what humanly appeals.
The most viable extraction is whether secular misperceptions exact coherency for living years amid “irrational terrors and ridiculous misunderstandings and here comparisons in instability reside against the difficulties of comprehending what God’s people indeed feel and think. There are many appearing reasonably happy but they are actually suffering horrors from conventionally established hype and will not admit to their insecurities. These recipients of the exclusive diet of secularity reside beneath the radar of securities in the Heavenlies in Christ, which display divine determinations. Their daily experiences are chiefly the clues that define their much relied on “facts of physical realities,” in which too many ignore the genuine spiritual atmosphere entirely. Hence, these unnecessary torments of scriptural Illiteracy inflict fear, which remits their terrestrial poles of imagined patterns, as they abstain to acknowledge eternal considerations!
Beyond physicality, spirituality utters scriptural protests against the lion’s share of time shaping attitudes invested in expressing the instinctive ages of manifestation rather than the upwards affections of God’s decreed actualization. Unfortunately, desires to protect and cherish secularity cause these misperceptions to be defiant against what has been spiritually internalized. Humanly inherent love for the allures of secularity forms infancy instincts, which contradict maturity in spirituality. Expectations in eternal realities lag in those captivated by materiality. Unqualified enthusiasms for human gratifications do not portend well for permanently abiding in existence because such unreliable instinctive, emotional susceptibility does not dwell at the center of God’s people’s hope.
Genuine joy produces an inner awakening, thus punctuating contrast between humanly induced compulsions and the eternal facts dominating in all matters of worldly concerns. Secularity intrudes into religious arenas for the sole purpose of enhancing humanism for “believing God” according to accounts of Him strictly granting earthly petitions. In stark contrast, “genuine spirituality” communicates awareness of His love regarding spiritual provisions conferred in the Heavenlies in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 1:3). In this sphere, the experiences of the Old Testament patriarchs, its other characters, as well as those in the New Testament do not ascend to the privileges of the knowledge incurred in the Grace Scriptures. Secondarily, the so-called “facts of human personal awareness” can’t comprehend the courses determinatively designed in God’s Divine Decree in Eternality.
Therefore, our commitment to this comprehension thrives independently of being able to avoid the so-called “pitfalls of this present life,” as necessarily our endearment to God. II Timothy 1:12 states, “For which cause, I also suffer these things but I am not ashamed, for I know in whom I have believed and I have been persuaded that He is able to guard my deposit unto that day.” Here, it is of note that Paul’s testimonial: “for which cause I also suffer these things,” references that he was in prison at the moment of this record faithfully proclaiming the Gospel of the Mystery, (II Timothy 2:9-10; cf. Ephesians 6:19-20; Colossians 4:3-4). The solid conjunction rendered “but” invokes stark contrast that his key thought was not on his earthly predicament but that he was “not ashamed.” Note that this verb is in the passive voice, literally conveying “not being disappointed or feeling letdown” because of his earthly situations. This teaches that what is perceived as happening is not the greatest, impactful abiding inference of our experiences in the earth wherein such is only temporary!
What is humanly viewed in most instances are not as they appear in their bearings as the turning-points of destinies. These “purposeful testimonies” express harshness of the depraved environment into which they have been flung behaving in a whining, tearful or self-pitying way in self-possessions. God’s enablement of the weathering of the storms of life extract convictions that the sinfully depraved nature, foolishness and weaknesses exhibited in time are not the reason for which something exists or for which it has been prepared or finished. Various schemes are religiously claimed as the moral, social and intellectual standards of engagements, contradicting one another in supposedly working out their implications. This essentially conflicts in the traditions of asceticism (strict self-denial) when annexed to synergism (humans and God working together). Persistence on respect for human approvals through self-indulgences adorns “creature braininess” and human assumptions. Hence, money and privileges are the things that matter in the physical realm of social success. Unfortunately, it is all but impossible for humankind to harness such in favor of what is inherited much more in the spiritual realm!
These are the sequences of memoirs that account for greater or lesser the conclusions displaying the joys and/or sorrows significantly detailed in God’s people’s suffering. The uninformed extent of these reflections is what invokes subjections to the assorted carnal influences distributing such gross distortions. What such misperceives in is convincingly coaxed traditionally but can never guarantee “genuine joy," as such is unrecognizable in variations of dwellings in this life’s entanglements. In lieu of the enlightened Heavenlies’ itinerants, earthly focused wanderings merely make the most of adverse occurrences. Thorough, scriptural analyses of life refute secular allusions of physicality, as such are never illustrated in realistic contents. Comprehension of eternality is appropriate only in orderly or peaceful dialogues.
Adverse, earthly physicality focally positions within unrelieved brittle and tangled forces, which are failingly unattractive in unreliable surroundings. Physicality can’t associate in the eternally abiding entities, in that such is liken to the convenient allusions echoed in the distortions, which are fading in time. Secularity solely mimics allegorical purposes to recreate, invent and visually present persons, places, events and actions pictured as decisively controlling humanly determined courses. That which is being described mirrors fiction as a form of actualized discourse. Human impressions exude distinct forms, each with its own expression of purposes and convictions. Humans categorize summaries, dialogues, feelings, thoughts and instructions insistence on delivery modes for fiction-expositions and transactions.
Earthly life events glorify compilations engendering mere mortal dialogues, thoughts, summaries, scenes and descriptions draped in human deficiencies. Currently, there is no consensus of humankind regarding the number and composition of fiction and their uses for transmitting mental images of the particulars in unchartered courses. In concert with these dialogues; narrations, expositions and their summarizations exhibit the most widely recognized fiction. These representations don’t show evidence of anything more than their imagined amassing of bringing something to life by carefully arranging such to produce a desired effect. Inappropriate and ineffective, secularity defines courses as such are incorrectly devised to flow and draw attention to so-called human capabilities.
It is ultimately in the vertical, Heavenlies eternal view rather than the horizontal, earthly, temporary view, where physical images are not present, especially in the content of the former sphere. Considerably, such employs certain reliably realistic effects but not in the exaggerated sentiments of sufferings manipulated in relevant assessments noted as the abiding contents. In stark contrast, the more unequivocally positive sphere is oriented in its outstanding achievements in eternality. This is particularly in contents of WHO and WHAT, as well as WHEN, which subscribes the scrutiny of what is enjoined in “abiding security.” The root of what is spiritually referenced in its appropriations of propriety, yield great veracity, as it exposes the frailness of fleshy misperceived territories supposedly describing physical living streams meandering through fields or rivers of healing or an everlasting rainbow but these were never the actualized placements of them!
II Timothy 3:9 predicts the ultimate failure of such illusionary secular teaching in stating, “ ..but they shall not advance any further, for their senselessness will be evident to all, as also was of those.” This reference is to the perverse illusions ministered erroneously from God’s Word, as it focuses on the usage of the authoritative conjunction “but,” by emphasizing limitation that such will not advance ………..basically denoting to not make progress or proceed ahead. The negative particle “not” and indicative future avows that factually, such illusions will not ultimately prevail. Though these false impressions may seemingly prevail for a period, their “advancement” will not avail “much further.” This strengthens the conveyance that such will not advance much more or much further. Such will be eventually halted, “for their senselessness will be evident to all.” The noun “senselessness” is denoting: lacking spiritual understanding. The word “evident” indeed denotes to clearly manifest perfectly or very obviously.
Scripturally aligned truth affords what is solely in Eternality. Secularity is concentrated in physicality’s perception of happiness, bogged down solely of gratifications in materiality. What is propagated in and of such allurements afford associations simply with fleshly aggrandizements. The pandering of secularity glamorizes the facade of wealth as the entitlements to earthly promised blissfulness. Such are draped in elaborate articulations, spoofed in scripturally inappropriate explanations. Depictions in stylistic inconsistencies are solely appropriated to subjects that are inevitably consigned to falter in the terrain of time. Sadly, these are all influentially regarded as the grandiose authority of existence. It is by such illusion that the secular allurements exert commanding standards constituting the misconstrued “eternal visions” of physicality.
I Corinthians 2:1 states, “And I, having appeared unto you, brethren, appeared not with superiority of discourse or wisdom …declaring to you the testimony (mystery) of God,” Here, “having appeared,” having made an appearance or having made a presentation denotes the forum of speech. Its aorist alliance (completed action connotation), as well as its complimentary verb rendered “appeared” conveys the manner and content utilized in the message. The phrase “not with superiority of discourse or wisdom” delineates the practice of annexing human methodical authorizations for the purpose of authenticating secular knowledge, construed as wisdom. Thus, this verse confirms that such exploits are inadequate in “declaring to you the testimony (Mystery) of God.” Accordingly, it is exclusively in comprehension of genuine spirituality that: Eternally Heavenlies Viewing counteracts all the Gloominess of Earthly Life’s Occurrences!