"Supernatural naturalness"

It's the first Thursday of the month - and that means the monthly whole church prayer-meeting at Liberty Community Church, Bellshill. I always look forward to those evenings, and always receive more than I give. This evening, as I prayed for our young school-age folk, I heard myself use a phrase that I may even have coined - "supernatural naturalness".

It does sound like something of a contradiction of terms, and yet I believe that it says something important. I suppose that what I was trying to convey was the idea of being very natural in our sharing the truth of the Gospel with our friends and peers, yet doing so in a way that shows that we are 'operating' under supernatural power.

As I continue to ponder,I am realising that that is also one description of the Lord Jesus. No-one was more natural than He; so much so that even children (among the best judges of character in the human race!) flocked to Him. Yet He lived a life that was totally at one with God the Father; He lived a sinless life (even His enemies were unable to convict Him); He performed supernatural deeds - both in terms of His power over nature, and His healing miracles.

So what I'm advocating is, I suppose, that we live our lives more and more like Jesus - theologians use the word "sanctification". And that involves being open to God the Holy Spirit, and to His working in our lives. That isn't necessarily going to be easy, but it's the only way forward for those who call themselves disciples of Jesus. May each of us seek to live out our lives, in our homes, in our workplaces, and where we enjoy our leisure activities, with "supernatural naturalness", and show more of Jesus to a needy world.