Jesus fills the hungry soul with His life, peace and joy.
What is our soul? It is one entity in our triune make-up: our body, soul and
spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:23). The soul is our thoughts, feelings and choices.
One word for soul in the Bible is ”pxyxe" and means
to breathe, or to blow. God breathed His breath of life into us and our soul
was born. We get our words psyche, psychology, etc. from this root word. The
soul is our personality, our identity as an individual.
God justifies us in our spirit through salvation; He will
glorify our body with immortality when we see Jesus face-to-face; but He
sanctifies our soul in a life-long process to make us as holy as He is holy.
If we earnestly seek the Lord with our whole heart and
soul, we shall find Him (Deuteronomy 4:29; Matthew 22:37). We thirst for Him in
this desert of life; we long for Him with our entire being (Psalm 63:1).
If we do not seek Him, we may gain the whole world, but
we will lose our soul to the fires of hell throughout eternity (John 3:18:
Matthew 16:26). The better choice is to search for an intimate union with God
with the entire focus of our heart (Jeremiah 29:13).
God created us as an awesome and wonderfully made body,
soul and spirit and placed our soul in our innermost being. We find true rest
for our soul in God through salvation (Psalm 62:1; Jeremiah 6:16).
When our soul is depressed and disturbed within us, we
can put our hope in God, praising Him in the good times and the bad (Psalm
42:11). He works out even the most horrific details of our life for our good
(Romans 8:28).
Prayer:
Father God, You created us so that we prosper in life in
the same manner that our soul prospers (3 John 1:2). If our soul is overwhelmed
and depressed, it affects our body and spirit as well. Help us to see that we
will prosper only as we love You foremost in our heart, walk in obedience to
Your precepts, keep Your commandments, hold fast to You and serve You with our
whole heart and soul (Joshua 22:5).
We praise Your holy name from our innermost being,
because You have delivered us from the destructive pathway of sin (Psalm 71:23,
103:1). Our whole being waits for You, and our hope is based on Your Word
(Psalm 130:5). Your encouragement of us is sweeter than a honeycomb, feeds our
soul and heals our body (Proverbs 16:24).
Thought for the Day:
In our final days on this earth, we will clearly see that
God did not fail to deliver any of His promises to us; if we appreciate all
that He does for us now and walk only in His will, we will reap the benefits of
an eternal life blessed by His love. - Joshua 23:14
