JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL
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Psalm of David. 25:1
“To
You, O LORD, I lift up my soul.”
“Jesus, Lover of my Soul” is one of my favorite
songs. I love to play it on the piano in
a soft jazz rhythm. It just seems to
move my spirit. Mostly, we just sing the
song because it’s moving, but the title alone holds many mysteries when you
meditate on the words.
Let’s explore what the ‘soul’ is according to the
dictionary. (It is the immortal or
spiritual part of the person without any physical or material reality, and is
the emotional and moral thinking part of a human.)
Now to go to the Word of God: Did you know that the ‘soul’ is mentioned
1,497 times in the Bible and 294 times in Psalms alone. As many of the Psalms are believed to be King
David’s writings and songs, we realize how concerned he was with his soul. Taking the number of times it is mentioned in
the Bible, we can know how important it is to God.
It has been observed over and
over again that at the time a person dies, the invisible spirit leaves their
body. Although it has no physical
matter, it has been proven there is a change of weight in the body. In the book
of
I believe this silver cord is our spirit’s lifeline to
our physical body in the same way our umbilical cord is our lifeline to our
mother’s body during birth. To put this
in simple words is to say [my interpretation], “Remember, or think about God
while you are young before it’s too late.
When you die, [when the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher shattered];
[the wheel is broken at the well], the well of your life is dried up. Then your body turns to dust and goes back
into the earth. Your spirit then returns
to God in heaven where your choice while you lived will determine whether you
go to Heaven or Hell.
This warning is to every living soul. This is why the Lord loves our soul so
much. He created us in our mother’s womb
and placed our soul inside our body. “You
made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my
mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship
is marvelous—how well I know it. You
watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in
the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was
recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had
passed. .” Psalm
139:13-16 (NLT )
I do not believe that God
cares how our bodies look, or whether we have hair or not; His eyes are on the
heart (our soul). The heart is
considered to be the source of emotions, thoughts, feelings and our conscience. So what is the difference between the soul
and spirit? We live in a body and have a
soul, but the real person inside of us is our spirit. When we accept Christ as our Savior our
spirit becomes new because now we are born of God. 2 Corinthians 5:17
says “ Therefore, if anyone
is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all
things have become new.”
Our old self was covered in dirt and grime from our past
and when we are born again, it was washed clean and becomes new. We know this by the fact that God has placed
a new spirit within us and our body becomes the “temple of the Holy Spirit”. [I Corinthians 6:19]
We are made up of 3 parts; body, soul and spirit. Again, I must say that the soul and spirit
live within the body. Let’s read in Genesis
2:7 (KJV ): “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.” Every human is
created in God’s image, therefore able to communicate with God. Perhaps all creatures have a soul, but they do
not have a spirit as does a human being.
Only the spirit of a person can communicate with God.
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