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Recovering My Whole Person: It's A Spiritual Life

Tuesday July 10, 2018

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.


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 NLT)

Motor cars need a clear fluid (gasoline) in their engines in order to run well and transport people from place to place.  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 property 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 NLT)

How do we get filled up with new life from God?   We acknowledge that we need to repent 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.


Prayer:  Come into my heart, Lord Jesus.  I turn from my sins and ask you to forgive me.  Fill me with Your Holy Spirit so I can live a Spirit filled life that is meaningful and satisfying.  Amen

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