Spiritual Life and Life in the World

It is a constant worry for ordinary people how to combine their spiritual life and their routine life in the world. The usual practice is to compartmentalise the two into two schedules of life. Our day to day life with all duties and functions we are expected to perform is called life in the world. The time set apart for religious duties is considered our spiritual life. The complete division between the two prompts some people to make a distinction between the religious and spiritual life. Although these are not to be identified as the same , complete separation between the two is also not feasible. Our religious practices should be seen as means to enhance spiritual life in us like a reservoir of energy. However, the same should necessarily be made to permeate our daily life giving direction and purpose to our life. It is like filling the petroltank of our car from the petrol pump ready to go places. If the car is left to idle, filling it up with petrol does not serve any purpose. Combining our life in the world and spiritual life may be seen as the coming together of the secular and the sacred in our personal lives.  
                                                       Those who want to follow Jesus Christ in their personal life may learn the art of combining the two in a very fundamental manner. His very person is the result of the union between the two, i.e., the human and the divine representing the secular and the sacred. Being the Word of God - and being God Himself - he took upon himself our weak human nature sanctifying us in the process. We only have to follow in his footsteps inorder to combine the secular and the sacred in out lives. We shall see step by step what are the requirements of a true folllower of Jesus Christ in subsequent communications.