Walking a Tightrope between Two Kingdoms?

By A. W. Tozer

And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left
me alone; 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 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 "sacred-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!
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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.