Major Ian Thomas emphasizes that the spirituality of our actions is determined not by their nature but by their divine origin. He illustrates this through the life of Jesus, whose every action stemmed from His complete availability to the Father, demonstrating that all activities, whether monumental or humble, hold equal spiritual significance when they originate from God. Thomas asserts that true spirituality lies in our willingness to be available for God's divine action, allowing Him to work through us. He encourages believers to focus on pleasing God in all they do, as Jesus did, highlighting that the form of our actions is secondary to their divine source.

It is not the nature of what you are doing that determines its spirituality, but the origin of what you are doing. Not its nature, but its origin! There was never a moment in the life of the Lord Jesus that was without divine significance, because there was never anything He did, never anything He said, never any step He took which did not spring from a divine origin ­ nothing that was not the activity of the Father in and through the Son. Thirty-three years of availability to the Father, that the Father in and through Him might implement the program that had been established and agreed on between the Father and the Son before ever the world was. Why did the Father give all things into His hands? Because Jesus Christ was completely Man. And He was completely Man because He was completely available! For the first time since Adam fell into sin, there was on earth a Man as God intended man to be! Which of His activities were the more spiritual, the Sermon on the Mount, the raising of Lazarus from the dead, or the washing of His disciples' feet? The answer, of course, is that no one activity was more spiritual than another, for all had their origin in the Father, who acted through the Son. "I do always those things that please Him" (John 8:29). The Lord Jesus summarized this in John 14:10 - "Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself; but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works." In other words, "I have presented My body to the Father who indwells Me, that He may do His works in My body; and My Father does His works through His Spirit by whom He indwells Me, and through whom I have offered Myself without spot, faultlessly, to my Father." The whole activity of the Lord Jesus on earth as Man was the Father's activity in the Son, through the eternal Spirit through whom His body was presented to the Father. Spirituality in man is his availability to God for His divine action, and the form of this activity is irrelevant. If it pleases you, always and only, to do what pleases God you can do as you please! From: The Saving Life of Christ