Our Spirituality
We have learned in
God’s
Plan of Creation that we have a spirit, soul, body and mind. Our
spirit and soul were created in the image of God, holy eternal beings. Our
bodies and minds were a new creation which were holy, but never made eternal.
When the first man and woman sinned their total self,
spirit, soul, body, and mind, were no longer holy, no more could they live in
the presence of God. Our spirit and soul were destined to eternal separation
from God, while our mortal bodies would end with our physical death. But our
Heavenly Father’s love for us was so great that His Son, Jesus Christ, died as
atonement for our sins. Christ’s gift of grace allows believers to become holy
once again. Our mortal bodies must die, but with physical death believer’s
eternal spirits and souls return home to Heaven to be with their Lord forever.
And Jesus will one day return to raise up, glorify our
bodies and minds so they can also live forever with our Savior in
God knows who will
be His own and what He will have them do before He even creates us. From the
time we were conceived in the womb, to the time when we are called from this
world, the Lord alone knows who will humbly love and open their hearts to Him,
and those who will reject the Holy Spirit. This does not mean some are
automatically saved, that they will not have to face temptations, struggles,
and tests in their lives. That the chosen do not have to run
the worldly race. It simply means those who allow the Holy Spirit to
rule their hearts will be given the faith, the love to become spiritually one
with Jesus Christ. And Christ’s love for us will persevere against any evil or
tribulation we will ever face.
We are created
when God forms us in the womb. We are created with a spiritual being as well as
our physical being. Our spirit and minds are separate members of our intellect.
We are conceived with sin, with a spiritual being
enlightened enough to know our Lord, mature enough to know right and wrong
while in the womb. That even in the womb we are spiritually capable of
communicating with the Holy Spirit, and respond to the joy He brings us.
That at birth our
spiritual being can be filled with the Holy Spirit, showing us the truth of our
Lord. As mere infants our spirit can offer praises to our God. Praises which
repel even Satan, praises which show the evil spiritual world how great our
Heavenly Fathers is, how great His creation of new life is, how He is able to
create a good work in a mere baby. That the Lord gives us the ability to trust
Him while we are still nursing babies because the Spirit lives in our hearts.
Little children
even have guardian angels in Heaven watching over them. As we grow and become
young children our spiritual being still grows in faith as our human mind is
not strong enough to overrule the truth within our spirit, the ability to love
and accept our Lord. Jesus gives eternal blessings to little children for their
faith. Young children with the Spirit are humble, believing and are one with
their Savior. Jesus tells us that the love the little children had for their
Lord assured Heaven belonged to them. They are even spiritually capable of
comprehending through the Spirit things the scholars of the day do not
understand. From being created by God,
to growing into young children we are sanctified as believers by the Spirit and
by believing parents.
As we grow older
our natural human minds develop which have no spiritual wisdom and take over
our spiritual being. Jesus told us we have trouble understanding worldly
things, so we will not be able to grasp heavenly or spiritual
truths. Our natural physical mind does not understand spiritual truths, it reasons them to be foolish. In fact our
physical mind fights against spiritual truths. To come back to God we must
become a new creation in Christ, we must be born again. Our spirits must become
receptive to the Holy Spirit once more like we were as a young child. Only
through the Holy Spirit can we find God. Only through the Holy Spirit are
we taught about the spiritual truths of our great God. We will continually fight the battle of mind
over our spirit. We will win this battle only with the help of our Savior and
the Holy Spirit, as They sanctify us, as They hold us
in the truth. We can do nothing, but with God all things are possible.