The Connected Life

October 27, 2010 by Sal Termini.

How do you define spirituality? How can a person best serve God? These are the questions we must ask ourselves if we are to find our true purpose in life. We can fulfill God’s will in powerful ways in our everyday life. If our life is lived purposely to glorify God we understand more than most people about spirituality. To glorify God means to remind people of God’s character and reflect it by doing the right thing in every circumstance. It is living in a way that honors God.

When a mother feeds, clothes, and cares for her family’s needs she is doing the will of God. Her actions will one day reap a spiritual reward because she acted in the natural world in a godly manner. Every day fathers and husbands go to work to bring provision home for their families they are doing God’s will. Our jobs are essentially a calling from God. Where we work is our sphere of influence and we can make the lives of others around us better. On the practical side, Apostle Paul taught, “if we don’t work we won’t eat.” He thus made work part of our spiritual life. We disconnect the secular from the sacred not realizing their interconnectedness.

It is important to become part of a faith community. In that community we will participate in prayer and serving others, and grow in spiritual truth. Our spiritual life is to be lived out in the secular world to glorify God. On the other hand, when God is of little importance or marginalized because of our secular and work life, we fail to become a complete person. A danger sign that we are becoming unbalanced is when we spend little or no time with God or our faith community.

The connected life must have the right attitude then strike a balance of time between our calling and our worship.

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