WHAT DOES "WORLDLY" LOOK LIKE TO YOU?

Although I had made a rough draft, my Pastor’s Pen article for this week just wasn’t coming together like it ought, and it was getting close to Sunday. In my office on a shelf a notebook from a class I’d once taught on “Spiritual Warfare,” caught my eye. I rummaged through it and what grabbed my attention were not the typed notes but something I had scrawled in my awful handwriting on the back of a page. Scribbled was the word “worldly” with a list underneath of my attempting to define or describe it. What followed was not the results of a Biblical study or a systemized theology; it was simply my musings on worldliness—musings, I trust that surfaced from many Bible studies, experiences, observations, and impressions forged in prayer. Some things are awfully hard to put your finger on and adequately define or describe. “Love” is another such word. “Spiritual” and “worldly” are two others. Yet, in each case of each word, we still recognize “love,” “worldly,” and “spiritual” when we see them. Below, without comment is my list as I jotted it years ago. I typed it so it would be readable. Worldly Sensitive to its opinions Enchanted by its nature Envious of its ways Governed by its trends Adopting of its values It is a rough, imprecise, incomplete list, I know. However, I am convinced that any honest person knows worldly when he sees it. What does it look like to you? What would you take from or add to the list? Perhaps, after contemplating “worldly” one could muse on how to describe "spiritual." What does that look like?