Our spirit is the gateway to God and to the eternal.
As Jesus is The Way, The Truth, and The Life, our spirit is the door we open to Jesus.
We nourish our soul from our spirit.
Our soul is broken so it doesn't retain life well.
That's the reason we are admonished to 'abide in the vine.'
Abiding is not a religious exercise mind you,
it's the exercise of life within us.
Spiritual life flows, it bubbles up like a spring in our heart
and nourishes our soul.
Everything integrates in our heart
both good and evil integrates into our lives through our heart.
Our heart is where we cultivate what we experience with God in our spirit.
It is where we work out what we focus on.
Our heart is like a garden where we cultivate the seeds God has planted within us.
These seeds are not mere thought or mental acquisitions we can control or manipulate with our mind.
They are life itself, tasted and experienced.
Before these seeds become thoughts or feelings they are spirit.
Until we see behind the words we speak,
Until we see the breath, the spirit that Jesus spoke with,
We will be locked withing a world or our own and other people's design.
We live, as C.S. Lewis said, in the Shadowlands.
The spirit is behind the shadows we see,
The eternal as through a veil.
So what's behind the words we speak?
What spirit, what motivates us?
Is it love? Is it our spirit? or is it our soul that moves us to speak, control and shape?
And what fills the content of our words?
For our words are vessels of substance or shadows, spirit or soul.
And where do we dwell? Where do we live?
We are urged by Scripture to dwell in Christ.
As we speak, live and give the atmosphere of our presence from where we dwell,
We have a mandate to seek and dwell with Jesus.
A whole-hearted life
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