Month: August 2024

The spiritual and the physical worlds are both real and created by God with a purpose. In Genesis 1:1, the Bible says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth,” which means both realms came from God. They weren’t just random or separate things. By creating both realms, God shows that the spiritual world is just as real as the physical world we experience every day. This means things like consciousness, faith, prayer, and spiritual experiences are not just “extra” parts of life—they’re central. N.T. Wright, a well-known theologian, has pointed out that “the invisible world is real, and it’s not detached from the physical; it’s intimately connected” (Simply Christian).

The Trinity didn’t just create the world and then leave it alone. They’re constantly working in both the natural and spiritual realms, interacting with us in real time. God is actively engaged in the ongoing story of both realms. This matters because it shows that God cares about what happens here on earth and in the spiritual world. The Trinity are not distant but are always involved in the lives of Their creation. We can interact with Them through prayer, experience Their guidance, and trust that They are paying attention to what happens in both realms.

Our lives are connected to something bigger. Since God created both the heavens and the earth, it means that what we do on earth has spiritual importance. The choices we make, how we live, and how we treat others are all connected to the spiritual world.

As Jesus taught in Matthew 6:10, “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” The spiritual realm is not some faraway place—it directly affects how we live here and now. We are designed to live in a way that reflects God’s values, bringing agape love, grace, mercy, morality and truth into the world around us.

The natural world can be difficult, filled with pain, suffering, and confusion. But because God created both the heavenly spiritual realm and the earth, we know that this life isn’t all there is. There’s more that we don’t always see.

The spiritual and physical realms are real, deeply connected, and full of meaning. God is involved in both realms and your life is part of a bigger picture, one that will ultimately give you hope, a future and a purpose.

God the Trinity planned, out of Their inexhaustible agape love, to have human sons and daughters before They even created the universe.

This helps us understand who God is, our value as human beings, and what the bigger purpose of life and history is.

Firstly, God is a relational being. The Bible tells us that “God is agape love” (1 John 4:8), and agape love always wants to be shared. If God the Father wanted a family from the beginning, it means He created us because He wanted to be our father. C.S. Lewis once said, “God is love, and that means God is relational—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, eternally existing in perfect love. Creation is the overflow of that love” (Mere Christianity). This means the whole point of our existence is a relationship with God the Father, where He is our loving Father and we are His beloved children.

God the Father’s plan is for all of us to be His children, but we get to choose whether to remain intimately connected with the family in which we belong. This makes the relationship even more meaningful because God the Father’s agape love isn’t forced upon us — we get to freely choose it.

If God had this plan from before the beginning of time, that means you and I are part of a huge, beautiful purpose. We’re not just accidents or afterthoughts. Athanasius, a famous Christian theologian, once said, “The Word was made man so that we might be made divine” (On the Incarnation). This means that God became a human being so that we might become like God.

So there’s a bigger story going on. History isn’t random—it’s all heading toward God’s plan of having a divine family. The Bible talks about this in Ephesians 1:4-5, saying that God chose us “before the foundation of the world” to be Their sons and daughters. This means that everything—our lives, the world, the universe—has a direction. God the Trinity’s plan from the beginning has been to share Their agape love with human beings in a family relationship, and They’re inviting us to be really close family members, instead of acting like distant relatives.

You are infinitely valuable, your life has great meaning and you have a wonderful purpose, to live in a close relationship with God who truly and deeply loves you.