Am I Spiritually Alive? (1)

So God created human beings in his own image.  In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth. (Genesis 1:27, John 4:24 NLT)

We live in a world where some things are unseen and yet we are absolutely aware that they exist.  Jesus used the example of the wind to help us understand the fact that there is an unseen spiritual world behind all that we see in the visible world and, we have to deal with that world if we are to see changes in our hearts, minds, and circumstances. 

“Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit.”  (John 3:8 NLT) 

We are all aware that we have a body which we can see and feel and touch and we also have a soul where we think and feel and choose.  We can’t see that soul but we experience its effects every day of our lives.  We also have a spirit that keeps us alive each day that we live and breathe on this earth and the spirit will leave our body when we die.

My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine forever. (Psalm 73:26 NLT)

At our death our body remains but something clearly has changed.  The spirit is gone.  We don’t see the spirit leave but the heart stops beating, the lungs stop breathing and the brain stops sending signals.  With current medical technology doctors can see the effects of the spirit being gone.  We can also see signals on monitors as they beep and make lines and pictures, but no doctor and no machine has seen the spirit.  It’s like the wind.  We hear it and see the effects but the spirit itself is not seen.  However, the spirit is still very real because when the spirit is present, there is life.  When the spirit is gone, there is death.

Let’s bless all the life we experience in our body, in our soul, and in our spirit and thank God for creating us in this awesome way.  Let’s also welcome God to make us alive forever by being born again of the Spirit.  (We’ll speak more about this in coming days.)

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