Title: What is the Christian Spiritual Life?
When we visit someone's house, we can often see a frame of Chinese characters, a folding screen, and a picture of an oriental painting hanging in the master bedroom or living room of the house. For example, 根深葉茂 (Be like a deep-rooted and leafy tree), 家和萬事成 (If the family is at peace, all things can be accomplished),和 (peace comes with patience), etc. In the house of some musicians there are portraits or busts of people like Bach, Beethoven, Toscanini and Karyajan. All of these are the words of the lesson or the expression of the inner heart that we want to be like the person we respect. There is one strange story. Looking at the photos in the book <Ho-Am's Management Philosophy> published by Samsung, Lee Byung-Chul, chairman of Ho-Am, put the words < 空手來空手去> on the wall just below his bedroom.
Spirituality is just that. It is the desire of people to become so deeply in their hearts. Taoism, which depicts the Taegeuk in black and white, has a spirituality oriented towards the Tao, seeking the spirituality of Buddha in a temple that enshrines a Buddha image, and trying to imitate the spirituality of Confucius in a hyanggyo that enshrines Confucian tablets. Spirituality is the process, practice, and training in which a person reproduces in his or her life a spiritual and spiritual model of what he believes, wishes, and honors.
2. What is Christian spiritual life?
Calvin said, “Christian spirituality is the determination of the heart to be ready and willing to follow God’s will. It is to live worthy of God's call in all places of our lives, and to live a life united with Jesus in the heart of Jesus.
Professor Han Ki-chun said, <Christian spirituality is the work of serving those who have received Jesus Christ as my Savior and taught them to grow up to the fullest extent of the maturity of Christ, and also to serve the church and its flock, the body of Christ. It is a process and activity that helps build up the body of Christ. In other words, by being filled with the Spirit of God, ruah, pneuma, and the Holy Spirit, we cast off the values of the old man, which are carnal, worldly, earthly, and self-centered, and become spiritual, spiritual, and spiritual. It is a life of living as a new creature >.
Professor Oesik Kim said that <Christian spirituality is a reality that transcends human sensory phenomena, that is, man's longing to establish a relationship with God at the deep level of human existence. ) refers to all of these processes and results, such as Inner Consciousness (Inner Consciousness) and Energy (Energy) that make them dedicate themselves to creative actions in history. This spirituality has a dual structure, so it is said that introverted and extroverted movements.
If I put it in my own words, as I said in No. 69 of the Fountain of the Word, <Christian spiritual life is our life that is completely unchristian while we say we believe in Jesus Christ, the original life of Jesus Christ, that is, Christ All training, both internal and external, up to the full measure of In other words, it is the whole process of training yourself so that you can live the truth you know in real life. >
3. The goal of spiritual life - what is the measure of Christ's maturity?
Many spiritual seniors who pursued a spiritual life in desert fathers and monasteries emphasized the <obedience, silence, poverty, purity, prayer> life as a training course for the spiritual life. According to the monastic tradition, the number was reduced to three, emphasizing < obedience, silence, poverty >. Of course, these three items are not the full measure of Christ itself. However, I thought it was a good virtue for becoming more like Christ. I believe that this monastic spiritual training will be very beneficial even today. This part is going to be deeply meditated on one by one in the future.
4. The spiritual life is a discipline.
What we want to keep in mind today is the fact that the Christian spiritual life is not just intellectual accumulation, but a whole-of-person discipline and discipline. We are spiritually weak today, not because we are not intellectually ignorant, but because we have not been trained physically and mentally. Therefore, you must receive spiritual training. It is clear that spiritual training is also training. So, what is the essence of training? Today, let's think about the essence of this training.
However, the training is simple ( Simplicity )
Training is not theory. I have to be able to do it with my real body. Therefore, the basics of all training should be simple.
One, training is repetition ( Repetition )
The essence of training lies in constant repetition. Repetition is another habit.
One, training is concentration ( Concentration )
The heat of the sun in its natural state cannot start a fire. Concentrating that heat on the concave lens can cause a fire. The concentration of 精神一到何事不成 is essential.
One, training is incarnation ( Incarnation )
When Ms. Yook Young-soo was sniped, all the ministers from the military were lying on their faces, and those from the non-military were looking around. That is the incarnation of training.
One, training is continuity ( Continuity )
Spiritual training does not require graduation. It is said that if you stand, you will fall. It continues until the day that God calls us.