Recovering My Whole Person - A Spiritual Life

 RECOVERING MY WHOLE PERSON:

IT’S A SPIRITUAL LIFE

We are spiritual beings who have a soul and live in a body.  God created us to be complete only when we are filled with His life.  We can’t think and choose appropriately unless we have the life of God in us.  Without God, we live stressed and obsessed trying to experience a pleasurable life that satisfies.  Over and over again, our efforts end in disaster. The Bible tells us clearly:

But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means. 

1 Corinthians 2:14

I’ve often used the example of how automobiles need a clear fluid (gasoline) in their engines in order to run well. Water, a clear fluid, is much cheaper than gasoline and much more easily accessed but, if we put water into the engine of a car we will destroy it. All clear fluids do not have the same properties and do not perform the same purpose. 

Similarly, at our core, we are spiritual beings.  To live well we need to find a spiritual solution to life’s challenges.  Trying to fill ourselves up with work, sex, money, pleasure or anything else, will break us down rather than satisfy us.  We need God in our lives. 

Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.  Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.  So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’ 

John 3:5-7

How do we get filled up with new life from God?   We acknowledge that we need to repent from living in self-will and ask God for forgiveness of our sins.  We invite Jesus to come into our lives and fill us with His Holy Spirit.  Only then will we begin to think and feel differently.  Everything will change because we have become fully alive in Christ and real change can begin – from the inside out.

Loving God, thank you for making us spiritual beings.  Thank You for coming to live in us at our invitation and giving us forgiveness for our sins and new life with God in heaven. 

Fill us today with Your Holy Spirit so we can live the life You created for us, one that is meaningful and satisfying.  Amen

Spiritual beings – that’s who we are at our core and everything builds up from that. Let’s build well today.