When Someone Says They Are Spiritual

When you ask someone if they believe in God and they respond by saying they are “spiritual”, what do they mean? What spirit are they referring to? Do they realize that the devil himself and all of his cohorts are spirits too? And that a primary function of the devil is to lie to you and deceive the world!

“…that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world” (Revelation 12:9).

The word “Devil” literally translates, “false accuser, slanderer” and “Satan” means one who “incites apostasy from God and to sin”. The Deceiver has one goal, which is to trick, dissuade and convince you to defect from God, His word and His will. The Deceiver especially wants you to think that you know best.

The word of God warns us of these false, deceitful spirits, (and what their end-game is), that so many people unwittingly cling to by being “spiritual”.

“For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. (2 Corinthians 11:13-14).

The spiritual state is home to both good and evil spirits. You who are spiritual may think or feel you are doing good, when in reality your good intentions may be nothing more than the road to Hell.

But let’s take a step back for a moment and examine how goofy it is to say you are “spiritual” when asked if you believe in God. Saying you are “spiritual” is analogous to saying you are “political” when asked if liberal or a conservation, Democrat or Republican. The response simply doesn’t make any sense. You wouldn’t say you were “governmental” if asked about your belief in the US Constitution, would you? It’s the same thing.

Maybe, just maybe when people say they are spiritual it is meant they put their faith and confidence in the human spirit over the fleshy, temporal human body. I’ll admit, this belief is a step above the most basal state of God’s creation, but fails to ascend to its highest point. And again, the spiritual state is home to both good and evil spirits. So which is it? What spirit are you adhering to? Whether you know it or not, you are serving one or the other, God or Satan. Whether you realize it or not, sin by omission or by commission is still sin. Unrepentant sin ends in death and destruction.

Maybe when folks say they are spiritual, it offers them a degree of comfort. Maybe, in their mind at least, it raises them above the earthly plane and above our “mortal coil”, yet does not commit them to God or His will. After all, spiritual is superior to temporal, right? This is a religious “safe zone”. It’s above the fracas of the flesh but beneath the responsibility of the supreme divine condition.

Being non-committal to God can only make you inferior to God. God said, “I am married unto you” (Jeremiah 3:14). But we can’t be married to God without our confession, promise, devotion and obligation to Him.

“And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” (Revelation 22:17)

And there you have it, “whosoever will”, with the key word being “will”. God gave us free will. He gave us the right and ability to choose, knowing that many would not choose Him. When someone says they are “spiritual” they are choosing something other than God. They may feel lofty or religious by claiming a higher state, but it is all moot if not THE highest in God almighty.

I leave the spiritual with something to consider. I hope and pray you choose life.

“See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” (Deuteronomy 30:15-20)