Temporal vs. Eternal

As I'm reading and gathering my thoughts and turning this day over to Christ, the words temporal and eternal come to mind.

As I begin to dig into what this may mean and do a quick study, it leads me to Spiritual warfare.

The second definition for temporal on dictionary.com is this:

2. pertaining to or concerned with the presentlife or this world; worldly

In fairness to definition's, eternal:

2. perpetual; ceaseless; endless:

The reason there is this battle within us is this:

We were created from the earth.  

Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
John 17:6-18


So out of the earth we were created, this is temporal because of the fall of man.

Our life comes from the eternal, the spiritual, the very breath of our Father, God.

This is eternal because of the love our Father has for us, proven by the sacrifice of Christ on the cross.

When we become stuck in becoming connected to the temporal, this world, it drags down our spiritual eternal beings.

This is why Christ tells us:

Jesus Prays for His Disciples

⁶ “I have revealed you^[a] to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. ⁷ Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. ⁸ For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. ⁹ I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. ¹⁰ All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. ¹¹ I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of^[b]your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. ¹² While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by^[c] that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.
¹³ “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. ¹⁴ I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. ¹⁵ My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. ¹⁶ They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. ¹⁷ Sanctify them by^[d] the truth; your word is truth. ¹⁸ As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.

And Paul tells us:

Romans 12: 2

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.

We are called to worship in spirit and in truth in John 4:24.

This is because our Triune God is a Spiritual God and He has created us to be spiritual beings in a temporary body here on earth.  

We are aliens to this earth and are meant for a life after.

So the battle as I see it:  To become less attached to this world and more attached to our God and Father through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.  To pray upon the Holy Spirit Who was sent to us as a Helper and Guide, to seek Father's will on earth as it is in Heaven.

To partake of His daily bread instead of the left overs of this world.  Drinking of the Living Water, rather than trying to fulfill ourselves with the things of this world.