What is the real thing about you?
But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." (1 Samuel 16:7)
One day, the body will return to dust but your spirit will continue living hereafter in the Kingdom of God with our Lord, Jesus Christ. So, the real thing about you is not your body or flesh but your spirit. If the real thing about you is your spirit, then you are supposed to give more attention to your spirit. Faith is not of man’s body or flesh but of man’s heart or spirit. In the Bible, the spirit and heart are the same. Pay attention to God’s Word by meditating on it because God’s Word is Spirit and life. The Word of God has the ability to develop a spiritual force in the heart or spirit of man called faith. Faith is what makes you one with God and only faith pleases God.
PRAYER POINT: O Holy Spirit,create in me a pure heart and a right spirit within me that I may focus on You at all times.
We tend to spend more time and attention in taking care of our bodily needs and forget that the body is just a vessel for the real us. The real you is your spirit, when we leave this world, the real us will go away but the body will be left here on earth; to go become the dust it originally was. If we take this into thought, then we will realise that we need to spend more time taking care of the spiritual more and more.
Let us nurture our soul, make it more comfortable for the Holy Spirit to dwell within us and have fellowship with us.
I will liken the soul to the engine of a car, the, no matter how good looking the body of a car is, a professional driver is always concerned about the engine, the engine runs the car. Admit that in the series The Fast and The Furious, most of the cars used are not the most fancy looking ones, you could see that the guys were more concerned about the engine. Be more concerned about your engine which is your soul.
Your clock is just a box without the engine, so is your toaster, water heater, stove, bicycle, the casing of your pen without the ink, these and many others make us better appreciate the importance of our soul. The well-being of our soul should never ever be compared with that of our body, a fulfilled soul is better than a perfectly kept body.
Stay blessed.
Stay blessed.
