Today in Church I heard an interesting message that focused in on how we are spirit, soul and body. It’s an uncommon topic for a Sunday morning message, but it made me think about some things I hadn’t really delved into for awhile.
- Our soul – the intellectual part of us understands reason, knowledge and emotions. The seat of our personality.
- Our body – the physical realm of our existence that feels cold, hot, pain and pleasure.
These above two are easy. We went to school and fed our souls, we can read books and gain knowledge. As for our body we can change it only so much as our soul which controls our determination and willpower enables us to. It is our spirit that we have trouble with.
- Our Spirit – that part of us which lives in and interacts with the spiritual world.
Oh scientists will never quantify the spirit of man or of God. Proud humanists would deny it completely. This is the hardest for us to interact with. It is even assumed from scripture that the spirit of man is dead until it is reborn in Christ. We could assume that without Christ we are nothing more than clever bipeds that walk and talk and drive cars.
Once we come to repentance and acceptance of Christ, Christ dwells within us. Genesis three is reenacted for us personally in that God breaths into us and makes us live again. Jesus does this in John even for the disciples.
Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
From this we can understand one more element of the spirit in man. The spirit lives in man, but is not of man. In this we are most like God. His very spirit lives within us as Christians. The same breath of God that breathed into Adam now dwells in us. Here God truly reveals a great mystery. How He lives within us.
This is why when we enter into worship, we are also lifted up.
This is why when we pray we are powerful.
This is why when we read God’s word, it resonates within us.
Just love this internet business. I go searching for art blogs to get an idea of what I’m supposed to be doing with mine and I find a brother in Christ! Hello from England.
Yes how wonderful it is that it is ‘no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me.’ Gal 2 v20
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