Which part of you does the leading?

Today’s blog post is contributed by David Trotta

As we’ve talked about before, we are a 3 part being – body, soul, and spirit, although our body and soul get most of the press these days.

We talk about our aches and pains or the how stressed out we are over the busyness of our lives.  We focus on the many physical and emotion ills in our lives, but fail to focus on the miraculous life our spirit lives every moment of every day.

Let’s look at a few examples…

Our Spirit is one in union with God (1 Corinthians 6:17)

Our spirit is seated in heavenly places with Christ (Ephesians 2:6)

Our spirit receives assurance from God’s spirit that we are His children (Romans 8:16)

Our spirit never tires.  It never stops communing with God.  The problem is we focus on how we feel physically and emotionally instead of focusing on who we are spiritually.  2 Corinthians 5:21 says we are the righteousness of God.

You might say “I don’t feel very righteousness,” but are you going to focus on how you feel or what God says about you?  I prefer the latter.

There are real life stories of people who have lived as paupers, yet had millions of dollars in the bank.  We can chose to live by the weakness we see in our body and soul or by the rich inheritance we have spiritually as God’s children.

I know, it’s hard not to focus on what we can see, feel, and touch, but if we can train ourselves to look first at our spiritual position and let that lead us, our body, soul and spirit will live in harmony and we will enjoy a fellowship with God we never thought possible.

NOTE

To those of you who faithfully enjoy this blog you may have noticed a few missing days this week.

We lost a day due to our internet service provider shutting us off when they were working in our neighborhood and then turning everyone else back on but forgetting us!

Then I enjoyed a few days away for some family time.

Thanks for understanding and we are back now!