You are not a body with a soul! You ARE a soul and you HAVE a body. C. S. Lewis pointed this out a number of years ago, and it is a fundamental truth we humans often get wrong. We think we are a body with a soul, and it’s the other way around. That bit of confusion often causes us to elevate the importance of our physical bodies. We ask questions like: ”Why would a loving God do such a thing to us?” (By ‘us’ we mean our physical bodies).
Our bodies are secondary to our souls. The bodies eventually die — the souls don’t.
Jesus says in Matthew 10:28 — “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”
We pray to God asking Him to change our physical circumstances. Sometimes He does — sometimes He doesn’t. It can be upsetting when He doesn’t, but we fail to realize there may be a purpose behind our situation that we don’t see right away or that we can’t understand.
It also helps to remember what Paul says in Ephesians 6:12 — “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”
We forget that God is dealing with two populations: a human population and a spiritual population. We have little knowledge of issues on that side. A discomfort here may solve a problem there (and visa versa).
Did you notice the phrase “evil in heavenly places”? That’s a bit disconcerting. We don’t like to think of evil being there, but it is and God deals with it and we are expected to deal with it too. We can only deal with it from our perspective, which seems so minimal. Read all of Ephesians chapter six where it tells how we are to react to it.
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Each of us is a unique spiritual being with a physical body. We are born individually, die individually and stand before God every moment of our lives as an individual. No matter how large a group we are in, our relationship with God is one on one. Therefore our worship and each of our styles of worship must be accordingly unique. That concept is developed and expanded in the book “Worshiping Alone” which is available through Booklocker, Amazon, Barnes and Noble or your favorite bookstore. If you haven’t read it, please consider doing so.
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