All Your Soul
All Your Soul
"So he said, “I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.” ’ But God said to him, “Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’(Luke 12:17-20)
Do you know that you are more than a name...a number...or a body? You are more than what you possess and you are more than what you often perceive your life to be. You are a living soul created in the image and likeness of God. You are known by the living God and you are His beloved child forever if you have put your full trust in Him.
This parable speaks of a man who is still stuck on himself. He cannot seem to be satisfied until his own will and plans are accomplished. He wants Jesus to give him his will and his own soul reveals a covetous longing for more land and bigger and greater barns to store all of his crops and goods. It sounds like many people today who are always needing to fill their lives with more stuff to make them happy.
But true happiness and fulfillment is not found in what a person possesses but in knowing who you are and whose you are...in becoming fully God's possession. The man speaking to Jesus needed to understand his God-given identity and how to be rich toward God...but sadly he was too focused on being rich in himself.
Jesus calls us to go to Him to receive our rich fulfillment and satisfaction. He says to the lukewarm church of Laodicea:
"Because you say, “I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked—I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see" (Rev. 3:17-18).
One day, we will all be before our Maker and your soul will be required of you. So when Jesus tells us that we are to love our God with all of our souls, we need to have a good understanding that our souls are not good if left to ourselves. We need the exchange our life for His...and allow the Holy Spirit to give life to our spirit to govern our souls.
Therefore, in order to love God with all of our soul, we need to come to the place of full surrender.
The Bible teaches that our souls are our personal self life and our immaterial conscious existence made up of: the mind, will, and emotions.
Jesus taught that we must lay down our self life for the sake of others and to find the life that we can only have in Christ.
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life (soul) will lose it, but whoever loses his life (soul) for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul (soul or self life)? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matt. 16:24-26)
Your true soul is revealed not in the eyes of the world...but in the eyes of God. In order to be right before God, we need to first know that we are not right before God. We are broken people who have selfishly rebelled against God at various points in our lives. We are all sinners who need a Savior. He is the only One who can make us whole and take back what the enemy stole.
So how about you? How is your soul doing at this time? Are you more focused on the external appearance of your life and your own personal comforts and conveniences or in giving God full reigns and control of your life?
Far too many people are more concerned about their body than their souls. They get physicals without assessing the health of the inner life of the soul. What they really need is a 'soulical,' where they examine what is making their souls unhealthy and un-surrendered.
Jesus said, “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matt. 10:28).
Our present and eternal rest comes when we learn to find our rest in God alone!
Jesus invites us to come to Him and to find rest for our souls.
David writes, "To You, O LORD, I lift up my soul...Keep my soul, and deliver me; Let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in You." (Psalm 25:1,20)
The Lord knows how to lead you through the hardest places of your life and to take you into the gentle streams of still waters, where He can restore your soul.
Take some time this week to do some personal soul assessment and to give God the reigns of your life and to allow Him to do what only He can do. Remember His past faithfulness and how He laid down His life for you to ensure that you would forever be with Him and that you would be blessed in His presence where there is fullness of joy.
"When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.
Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
For the help of His countenance." (Psalm 42:4-5)
His Spirit brings life your spirit and makes you whole so that you can eventually be fully sanctified in HIm. The Apostle Paul adds, "Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thes. 5:23).
"So he said, “I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.” ’ But God said to him, “Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’(Luke 12:17-20)
Do you know that you are more than a name...a number...or a body? You are more than what you possess and you are more than what you often perceive your life to be. You are a living soul created in the image and likeness of God. You are known by the living God and you are His beloved child forever if you have put your full trust in Him.
This parable speaks of a man who is still stuck on himself. He cannot seem to be satisfied until his own will and plans are accomplished. He wants Jesus to give him his will and his own soul reveals a covetous longing for more land and bigger and greater barns to store all of his crops and goods. It sounds like many people today who are always needing to fill their lives with more stuff to make them happy.
But true happiness and fulfillment is not found in what a person possesses but in knowing who you are and whose you are...in becoming fully God's possession. The man speaking to Jesus needed to understand his God-given identity and how to be rich toward God...but sadly he was too focused on being rich in himself.
Jesus calls us to go to Him to receive our rich fulfillment and satisfaction. He says to the lukewarm church of Laodicea:
"Because you say, “I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked—I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see" (Rev. 3:17-18).
One day, we will all be before our Maker and your soul will be required of you. So when Jesus tells us that we are to love our God with all of our souls, we need to have a good understanding that our souls are not good if left to ourselves. We need the exchange our life for His...and allow the Holy Spirit to give life to our spirit to govern our souls.
Therefore, in order to love God with all of our soul, we need to come to the place of full surrender.
The Bible teaches that our souls are our personal self life and our immaterial conscious existence made up of: the mind, will, and emotions.
Jesus taught that we must lay down our self life for the sake of others and to find the life that we can only have in Christ.
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life (soul) will lose it, but whoever loses his life (soul) for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul (soul or self life)? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matt. 16:24-26)
Your true soul is revealed not in the eyes of the world...but in the eyes of God. In order to be right before God, we need to first know that we are not right before God. We are broken people who have selfishly rebelled against God at various points in our lives. We are all sinners who need a Savior. He is the only One who can make us whole and take back what the enemy stole.
So how about you? How is your soul doing at this time? Are you more focused on the external appearance of your life and your own personal comforts and conveniences or in giving God full reigns and control of your life?
Far too many people are more concerned about their body than their souls. They get physicals without assessing the health of the inner life of the soul. What they really need is a 'soulical,' where they examine what is making their souls unhealthy and un-surrendered.
Jesus said, “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matt. 10:28).
Our present and eternal rest comes when we learn to find our rest in God alone!
Jesus invites us to come to Him and to find rest for our souls.
David writes, "To You, O LORD, I lift up my soul...Keep my soul, and deliver me; Let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in You." (Psalm 25:1,20)
The Lord knows how to lead you through the hardest places of your life and to take you into the gentle streams of still waters, where He can restore your soul.
Take some time this week to do some personal soul assessment and to give God the reigns of your life and to allow Him to do what only He can do. Remember His past faithfulness and how He laid down His life for you to ensure that you would forever be with Him and that you would be blessed in His presence where there is fullness of joy.
"When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.
Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
For the help of His countenance." (Psalm 42:4-5)
His Spirit brings life your spirit and makes you whole so that you can eventually be fully sanctified in HIm. The Apostle Paul adds, "Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thes. 5:23).
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