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How Healthy Is Your Soul?
We all try to do what we can to make sure our physical health is good, for example we eat healthily, we exercise and try to get plenty of rest. This is important, feeling good and having energy to do the things we do. I want us to consider the connection between our physical health and our spiritual health. The Bible tells us there is a connection, and that if things are well with our souls it contributes to our physical health.
3 John 1:2 says, Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prosper. John here is telling Gaius that he can see spiritual prosperity in him and his hope is that this would be the case for every aspect of his life.
If your soul is unhealthy, it is going to spill over into the physical. There are toxins of the soul: worried over a child, living stressed out over finances, worldly things. Worried about something that may not even happen, bitter over something that happened 20 years ago, feeling quilt for things out of our control, angry, holding a grudge. These things not only affect your physical body, but more important is what they are doing to your spiritual well-being.
Hebrews 12:15 tells us, looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled. I fear that this ideal will keep more people that are sitting in church pews out of heaven than any other sin. Notice this is something that we have control of and our soul will bel poisoned spiritually. Roots go in many different directions. If we let bitterness into our hearts and don’t stop it, it will rob us of our spiritual growth.
Proverbs 4:23 says, guard your heart, for out of it are the issues of life. Guard your heart, means we are in control of what’s going on in our hearts! Our hearts are a high-risk area because they are the command center for the soul. Bitterness in the heart will always manifest itself sooner or later.
What is it that’s poisoning your soul?
Robby Cable
Providence Church of Christ
