We live our life a lot like Abraham; looking for a city not made without hands, unseen in the heavens, yet each day he picked up his tent and cooking pots and walked on. He kept looking for the eternal and the invisible but what he saw every day was temporal and the visible. The fight of faith is to believe that which we have not yet seen yet there is much to learn from the things we can see and live amongst.

Solomon the wise men said in almost every chapter of Ecclesiastes “I have seen”. There are spiritual things going on in our lives and there are natural things happening which can be seen, and God expects us to deal with both.

There is not much “spiritual talk” in Proverbs Song of Songs and Ecclesiastics, because some problems need natural answers. If your toaster is broken, fasting isn’t going to fix it. If you have not spent time with your wife for a whole week, more praying in tongues won’t fix it. Also, we can’t fight spiritual enemies and the problem with carnal weapons. If Satan is oppressing you, watching another comedy on TV won’t deliver you.
Friend, we need to live fully attuned to the Holy Spirit seeking those things above, but live with wisdom and discernment in the natural world too.