What it means for God to be Spirit

I'm reading "Miracles," by C. S. Lewis. In it, as well as his book, "The Great Divorce," he illustrates this truth: Spirit is reality. God is reality.



When we think of spiritual things, we think of them as less tangible than the physical. But Lewis shows that they are more tangible; they are actually too tangible for words. In "The Great Divorce," a blade of grass in heaven cut like a knife. Flowers were too heavy to lift. People from earth were like mist, while people in heaven were as solid as mountains.



This is one of Lewis' most powerful quotes concerning God having no passions, "The passion of love is something that happens to us, as 'getting wet' happens to a body; and God is exempt from that 'passion' in the same way that water is exempt from 'getting wet.' He cannot be affected by love, because He is love."



Because there are concrete things, the source of all things concrete must be even more concrete than all we know.



God is reality. This is what it means for him to be Spirit.