God gives us two lives, one physical and one spiritual.
As humans we are wired for the physical life. Things that keep us alive are automatic. For
example, our hearts beat, and our lungs breathe without thought. We are well equipped to
satisfy our hunger by growing, hunting, or searching for food. When we are threatened, we
have a fight or flight instinct that helps us survive.
The spiritual life, on the other hand is less intuitive, and comes to us through a process of
evangelization focused on the person of Jesus Christ. Our second reading says, “There is
one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ, who gave himself as ransom for
all.” Jesus actively works with us, through the Holy Spirit, to give life to our spiritual life and
as John 10:10 says, “In abundance.” During Jesus’ ministry He focused on teaching us to
navigate the spiritual life and today we read Luke’s Gospel as Christ’s attempts to uncover
the mysteries of the spiritual life.