The Daily Guide
Shepherd your own soul
May the God of peace Himself make you entirely holy; and may your spirits, souls and bodies be preserved complete and be found blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 - Weymouth's translation
You are a spirit, you have a soul and you live in a body. You have got to maintain this order in your being. Your soul is always to be an agent of your spirit. Your soul is home to your mind, your will and your emotions - emotions to glorify God, a will to serve God and a mind to focus on Heaven and the solutions it has to earth's problems and conditions.
A lady asked me by email for help in getting over her feelings for a married man. I wrote back, "Getting over someone comes from a decision of will. Although your heart may be involved ultimately whether you move on depends on the soul." She had been praying to get over her feelings but hadn't realised the step past that point in her life was one she had to take. It's essential that your spirit man - the new creation in Christ Jesus - rules over your soul. You have to tell your soul what to think and be preoccupied with. As I've heard Gloria Copeland declare, "Your affections follow your attention." Phil.4:8-9.
You firmly need to take charge over your soul. This is exactly what David the king and psalmist used to do. He would speak with authority to his soul and tell it to come to order. As the preacher's illustration proclaims, "You can't stop the birds flying over your head but you don't have to let them make a nest in your hair!" Wrong thoughts will regularly fly over you but you have to voice the truth to shoo them off your mind so it can't be a place for them to rest. See Psa.42:11, Psa.625-7 and Psa.103:1-4.
Speak to your soul, keeping it glorifying God!
Copyright © 2005 P.F. (Simon) Measures
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