Compare spiritual with spiritual

These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. – 1 Corinthians 2.13-14

Spiritual thinking is a whole different kind of thinking. It is something that we need to be aware of and be careful about in our everyday thinking about the things that go in our lives. the world's way of thinking and the world's standards are so prevalent and so popular that we can be tempted to think that we are doing something wrong if we don't measure up to what the world expects.

We need to get over that. We need stop comparing spiritual with carnal. They are two totally different standards. They are two different plum lines.

They are so different in fact that the natural man cannot understand spiritual things.

Why then do we bother so much with the natural things?

We don’t have to compete with the world. We know have to measure up with their standards. Those who are ‘of the spirit’ must be concerned with the spiritual. Our standard is the word of God.

Let’s be sure we are comparing ourselves to the right standard.