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REVIEW PART ONE
Diagram
The Will
The Mind - the place of your beliefs,
The Body - Your little kingdom that you bring into God’s kingdom.
The Soul - The integrator
We are not lost because we are going to hell.
We are going to end up in hell because we are lost.
Our souls are damaged beyond human repair.
The results of a disintegrated soul...
WE WERE MADE FOR CONNECTION & CONNECTION IS A FUNCTION OF THE SOUL
Why do we feel lonely when we are alone for a protracted period of time?
Because being alone is being void of relationships.
Ironically, solicitude and stillness are required to care for your soul, but only that you may more effectively connect to God and then others.
We have mirror neurons that allow us to share experiences.
When we see a heroic or altruistic act, we experience much of the same brain chemical reactions as the person performing the need.
THE NEEDS OF A SOUL
It’s the Nature of the Soul to Need
Eternity is in your heart.
You want… well, what you want.
Everything you want.
And after you get it, you still want more.
The unlimited need of our soul is a mirror of the unlimited that God want’s to give His children.
1.
The Soul Needs a Keeper
Accepting the Consequences of Your Actions
I can spend without getting into debt.
I can lie without getting caught.
I can let my temper fly without damaging my relational life.
I can have a bad attitude at work and get away with it.
I can avoid disciplining my children without their getting spoiled.
I can neglect the Bible and still know God.
I can refuse to sow, & expect God to somehow give me a harvest.
Keep your soul by guarding its diet.
What thoughts do you feed your soul?
Do you regulate your own mind?
Speak to your soul, learn to quiet your mind.
Jordan (jor’-dan) = Descending; flowing down; (root = to go down; to flow down).
Descending rapidly.
Hermon (her’-mon) = Devoted; (root = to extirpate; to devote).
A prominent summit of a mountain (mountain of snow).
Mizar (mi’-zar) = Smallness; small; diminutive; young.
Soul-care is a different task than self-care.
I do not care for my soul only for my own sake.
It is only mine on loan, and it is coming due soon.
2. The Soul Needs a Center
The soul connects all those innermost parts together, connects them with God, and was made for harmony all the way through.
Notice how the psalmist writes, “Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me.”
In other words, it is my soul that connects “all that is within me” and that cries out for integration, for wholeness, for oneness, for harmony.
This can only happen when my soul — my whole life — is connected with God.
A soul without a center has difficulty making a decision.
A soul without a center feels constantly vulnerable to people or circumstances.
A soul without a center lacks patience.
The soul without a center is easily thrown.
The soul without a center finds its identity in externals.
The word here for double minded, is “dipsuchos”, from the Greek work we learned last week - “psuche”.
Double-Soul - fractured soul, disintegrated soul.
Sin fractures the soul, there are no “harmless sins”.
When my will is consistently, freely, joyfully aligned with what I
most deeply value, my soul finds rest.
That is wholeness.
When I live
with half-hearted devotion, my soul is always strained.
3. The Soul Needs a Future
To quote the prophet Ronnie Milsap, darlin, there ain’t no getting over me.
Eternity is in your heart.
Unfinished issues, unsettled soul.
If you ask most people what they believe about eternity, they will be vague or in outright denial.
4. The Soul Needs to Be with God
What fills the void?
You were created for worship.
You will worship something.
If you read through the Bible, you get the sense that the soul was designed to search for God.
The Hebrew Scriptures — which might be thought of as the Great Soul-Book of human literature — are almost obsessed with this thought.
The soul thirsts for the Mighty One (Ps.
63: 1).
It thirsts for him like parched land thirsts for water (Ps.
143: 6).
Like a laser it focuses the full intensity of its desire on him (Ps.
33: 20).
It lifts itself up to him (Ps.
25: 1), it blesses him (Ps.
103: 1 – 2, 22), it clings to him (Ps.
63: 8), and it waits for him in silence (Ps.
62: 1).
“Indeed, the soul lives in God.”
The soul seeks God with its whole being.
Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed.
My mind may be obsessed with idols; my will may be enslaved to habits; my body may be consumed with appetites.
But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.
Ortberg, John; Ortberg, John.
Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You (p.
116).
Zondervan.
Kindle Edition.
5.
The Soul Needs Rest
God hasn’t promised you an easy life, but He has promised you an overcoming one.
Make your goal to have easy circumstances, and life will always be hard in every way; Set your goal to have an easy soul, and your capacity for tackling hard assignments will actually grow.
The soul was not made for an easy life.
The soul was made for an easy yoke.
Most Christians adjust their level of obedience to their current level of endurance.
This is the direct opposite of what Jesus taught.
6.
The Soul Needs Gratitude
Thermostats, not thermometers.
Proactive, not reactive.
Part of the solution, not part of the problem.
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