We’re still on the subject matter of the troubles we face and the reason(s)
for them. Today, I have a few scriptures quoted back to back and I encourage us
to read the entire chapters of same.
We have somewhat looked at the 'God' part of the issues of life especially
the unpleasant ones and found that He uses them to work out things of eternal
value in us. Now we will look at the ‘man’ part of these issues, hence the
scriptures quoted below.
1 Pt 1:22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in
sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart
(NKJV)
1 Thess 5:23 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. (NKJV)
Gen 1: 26-27 Then God said, “Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them
have dominion (or dominate which means to
have a commanding or preeminent place or position, or, to have control ), over
the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all
the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him,
male and female He created them (NKJV)
Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into His nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a living soul (KJV)
Psalm 135:6 Whatever
the Lord pleases He does, In heaven and in earth, In the seas and in all
deep places (NKJV)
Please read the entire chapter 135. We find that both the
natural and ‘normal’ events of nature, as well as the un-natural events which
we like, in law, to term ‘the acts of God,’ He controls and makes them happen.
Catastrophic events are also attributed to Him in this chapter.
Quite a few other verses through the Holy Scriptures tell of all power
belonging to God, the earth and its fullness, the world and those who dwell in
it, all belong to Him. Even the hearts of kings and princes we find to be
under His control. We must remember to balance all this with the fact of our
freewill, because I sense the question “why are leaders so wicked, did God make
them so?”
Thus far we have established the following:
- God made man like Himself
- God is Spirit,
therefore God made man spirit
- God formed (shaped and
structured)man whom He had earlier created as spirit of the dust of the
earth (body)
- God joined the spirit
and the body together by breathing into man and making him a living soul.
By so doing, the spirit and body of man are connected through the soul.
The soul is the middleman so to speak, the bridge between two who
otherwise could never meet.
- And so, man is spirit, soul, and body.
- God gave man dominion
(preeminence) over all other living creatures, but never relinquished
ultimate control.
- There is nothing made
that was not made by God as only He has creative powers, and there is
nothing made that is not held up and sustained by God Himself who made
them. This we find in Hebrews 1:1-4
that
“God who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the
fathers by the prophets,
Has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir
of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;
Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person and upholding all things by the word of His
power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand
of the Majesty on high,
having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance
obtained a more excellent name than they.
Prayer
Heavenly Father, please open the eyes of my heart that I may grasp what you
are teaching me concerning the hierarchy of my spirit, soul, and body as
relates to the government of the Holy Spirit, in Jesus’ name, Amen.
#momomily2013
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