Living In The Eternal Fourth Dimension

Walk In The Spirit

The Christian life is spiritual. I believe having a clear understanding of what constitutes who we are as Christians in this life on Earth is the first step towards living well as Christians. To my mind, the metaphor of the third and fourth dimensions clarifies things. Living in the fourth dimension is the life in Christ. We cannot see the fourth dimension with our physical eyes. 2Corinthians 4:18 gives us the basics of Christian living as it is revealed in the New Testament. …while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Have you noticed how that verse contradicts itself? Paul advises that instead of looking at what can be seen, we should focus on what cannot be seen. How does one view something that cannot be seen? This is the starting point for the spiritual life in Christ. Our source of spiritual life is the Bible. The door is faith (trust in what God has said). We access the spiritual life found in the Bible through faith. Faith is imperative. It is possible to have a complete knowledge of the Bible, and no spiritual life, because faith was not practiced.

Living in the Spirit is always about things that last forever. Everything physical/material is transient (passing, short-lived). Romans 8:10 adds more detail. Your body is dead because of sin, but your spirit is alive because of righteousness, if Christ is in you. Consequently, good judgement, or common sense, advises putting less emphasis on what is dead, and more emphasis on what is alive.

I have to admit that reading comments on Medium with the subject lines “why I am no longer a Christian,” “I have a friend who no longer identifies as a Christian,” and “I was a Pastor, now I am not a Christian” disturbs me. Whatever their Christian experience, these folks never got to the place of discerning where life and death are. They have chosen death and seem to think they have made some sort of progress. Why would you walk away from life?

The good news is, when we are born again we automatically obtain spiritual life. (Romans 8:9) However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. Moving forwards from that point is crucial. Johns's Gospel 1:12 says, But as many as received him (Jesus), to them he gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. The becoming is up to us.

Paul teaches us how to progress from that beginning. For those who live according to the flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, about the things of the Spirit. For the mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is life and peace. (Romans 8:5–7)

Our bodies are the temporary carriers on this Earth, of our spiritual life. Our job description is to increase in the life that cannot be seen.

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