So through our long course of reflection, we come to see how the easy yoke of Christ is inescapably bound up with the disciplines for the spiritual life. Redemption as it is portrayed in the New Testament is comprehensible only when placed into careful relation with embodied human nature and God's purposes in our creation. It could not have been otherwise.
God in creation placed in the fleshly human organism abilities to serve as the vehicle of our vocation – including the capacity for voluntary interaction with his spiritual Kingdom in ruling the zoological realm on earth. The human body is the primary field of independent power and freedom given by God to the people. Put simply – no body, no power. People have a body for one reason – that we might have at our disposal the resources that would allow us to be persons in fellowship and cooperation with a personal God.
Our bodies are shaped into a specific character laden with specific skills and tendencies by our experiences, including those we voluntarily undertake. There is some latitude within which our character is formed by ourselves. Through the instrumentality of his life giving word, God in regeneration renews our original capacity for divine interaction. But our body's substance is only to be transformed totally by actions and events in which we choose to participate from day to day.
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