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perfect spiritual insights we are able to maintain a loving spiritual
relationship with God and one another for a Divine purpose.
In His image and likeness, the spiritual and physical aspects of life are at the
very center of what is Godly or the causation of life. We must maintain that
we are like God in spiritual form and bodily form, as God intended to enter
this world in the image and likeness of the man/woman He created. As
spiritual and physical beings our existence implies we are to preserve and
maintain a perfect sense of order, exercise the self-discipline of love, and to
right what is wrong in the world—a tall order to say the least.
Spirituality almost has an intellectual mystique that frightens almost
everyone because of the inability to define or articulate it, but we can know
it’s there and without seeing it, we feel it. That spark that gives us life is
spiritual by nature, so we are both spiritual and physical. Spirituality
certainly comes into focus when we ask why we have the ability to think or
what the purpose of thought is. When the spirit within departs, the body is
physically dead and without a purpose.
Spirituality is an unseen force linking the natural to the supernatural. We
perceive the supernatural in our mind, still yet unseen but known, because
we have an ability to make a connection. When you pray you have the
cognitive value to perceive the supernatural. Cognition is a mental action of
experiencing wisdom, acquiring knowledge, and understanding through
thought, in order to experience the senses by which observations of life find
the purpose of life. Understandably, cognition is a function within our
minds, but where do the thoughts and the information within the thoughts
come from?
Humans are uniquely different because we have the mental capacities to
understand the creative processes and the functioning relationships of all
things. We are like God in this regard. The human mind is evidentiary of
creation itself because of its ability to observe the order of things and
ponder why. Set apart from all other things, we must come to terms with
knowing our purpose and the meaning of life.
The ability to intellectually comprehend, both the cause and effect, love and
hate, is an awesome reality, because we can come to terms with the
motivation and comprehend the source. Choosing one over the other
dictates our spiritual direction and success. In order to love as it is to be
loved, we are motivated by a loving positive force, and are intended to
