Our Spirituality-Verses
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 body
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 was 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 (Is 49:1,
Eph 1:4, 2Ti 1:9). 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 (Ac
15:10, 1Cor 2:11). This does not mean some are automatically saved, that they
will not have to face temptations, struggles, and tests in their lives (Ja 1:12). That
the chosen do not have to run the worldly race (Heb 12:1). 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 (Eph 3:16). And Christ’s
love for us will persevere against any evil or tribulation we will ever face
(Ro 8:38).
We are created
when God forms us in the womb (Is 24:2, Ps 119:73, Jer
1:5). We are created with a spiritual being as well as our physical being (Is
10:8-12, Ps 139:13, inmost being is soul-Ps 103:1). Our spirit and minds are
separate members of our intellect (1Cor 14:14-15). We are conceived with sin
(Ps 51:5), with a spiritual being enlightened enough to know our Lord (Ps
22:10), mature enough to know right and wrong while in the womb (Ps 58:3). That
even in the womb we are spiritually capable of communicating with the Holy
Spirit, and respond to the joy He brings us (Lk
1:41-42).
That
at birth our spiritual being can be filled with the Holy Spirit, showing us the
truth of our Lord (Lk 1:15). 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 (Ps 8:2, Matt
21:16). That the Lord gives us the ability to trust Him while we are still
nursing babies (Ps 22:9) because the Spirit lives in our hearts (1Cor 12:3).
Little children
even have guardian angels in Heaven watching over them (Matt 18:10). 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 (Matt 18:3). Jesus gives eternal blessings to
little children for their faith (Mk 10:16). Young children with the Spirit are
humble, believing and are one with their Savior (Mt 18:5-6, Mk 9:37). Jesus tells
us that the love the little children had for their Lord assured Heaven belonged
to them (Matt 19:14, Mk 10:14, Lk 18:16). They are
even spiritually capable of comprehending through the Spirit things the
scholars of the day do not understand (Matt 11:25, Lk
10:21). From being created by God, to
growing into young children we are sanctified as believers by the Spirit (1Pe
1:2, 2Thes 2:13) and by believing parents (Ac 2:38,39,
1Cor 7:14).
As we grow older
our natural human minds develop which have no spiritual wisdom and take over
our spiritual being (1Cor 1:25-31). Jesus told us we have trouble
understanding worldly things, so we will not be able to grasp heavenly
or spiritual truths (John 3:12). Our natural physical mind does
not understand spiritual truths, it reasons them to be foolish
(1Cor 2:14). In fact our physical mind fights against spiritual
truths (Rom 8:7). To come back to God we must become a new creation in
Christ (2Cor 5:17), we must be born again (Jn 3:3-5).
Our spirits must become receptive to the Holy Spirit once more like we were as
a young child (Matt 18:3). Only through the Holy Spirit can we find God. (1 Cor 12:3). Only through the Holy Spirit are we taught
about the spiritual truths of our great God (1 Cor 2 :6-13). We will
continually fight the battle of mind over our spirit (Ro 8:5-6). 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 (2Thes 2:13).
We can do nothing, but through God all things are possible (Matt 19:26).