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He Restores My Soul

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Psalm 23 starts out with

 

“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

 

He makes me lie down in green pastures:

 

He leads me beside still waters.

 
 
 

He RESTORES my SOUL;”

 
 
 

We live in a world at war. A war between good and evil. Just pull today’s headlines. There is a collision going on every day all over this planet. Kingdoms seen and unseen battle. As you live in a world at war your soul takes a beating. Daily it experiences erosion, poisoning and sometimes outright violence. The cause of all this in our world? The fall of mankind in the Garden. ( You can read about it in Genesis 3) Now we are all born in sin and we all commit sins. To sin is to miss our mark of living. Sin is to fail to meet God’s commandment ( we can start with the ten commandments as a basis). WE all sin. Romans 3:23 says ” For all have sinned and fall short”. It is acting against our own interests by engaging the world in an immoral manner. To sin is to fall short of our potential, missing the mark of who we were created to be and having the best quality of life. Sin has messed up our world and causes damage to our souls. It has broken our fellowship with God.

 
 
 

When we realize we are a soul in a body and we grasp how precious our inner self, our being, our soul is, and the violence done to it on a regular basis because of this war zone we are in it becomes a big deal.

Your soul is your mind, your will and your emotions. This act of attrition (process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone through sustained attack or pressure) does damage to our souls. How can you know if this is happening to you?

 

~ You have no passion for God

 

~ You can’t seem to get on the other side of the things that mess up your life

 

~You don’t seem to love people well

 

~You don’t feel like who you used to be (in a bad way)

~ Keeping relationships in tact seems like more work than they are worth to you

 I believe your heart is the center of your soul. Proverbs 23:7 says “as a person thinks in their heart, so are they“. Solomon, one of the wisest people who ever lived said, “Guard your heart above all else, for from it flow the issues of life” (Proverbs 4:23). According to what those who study Hebrew root words for this verse, this verse says that from the heart flow 100% of the issues of life. Because of this daily assault on your soul your heart can get hard. You can get a hard heart towards God. A hard and hateful heart towards others. You can even get hard and hateful towards yourself. That darkens who you are.
 

Your spirit is like sunshine, the light in you. Your soul is like stained glass with all different colors. Just like the sun shining through stained glass shows all those beautiful colors our spirit shines through our souls and shows who we are. Through our laughter, our creativity, whether we are serious or not, whether we are an extrovert or introvert, if we are social and talkative or quiet, if we are patience or have a lack there of, if we are joyful, calm, industrious, harsh or gentle. Our PERSONality shows.

 
Sin darkens and even blocks who you are created to be. It messes you up. How do we get rid of the darkness in us? God did not leave us in darkness. He sent the Light. He sent His only begotten Son Jesus Christ into our world. Jesus Christ is called the LIGHT of the world for a reason. John 1:4 says “in Jesus was life, and the life was the light of men/women. And the light shines in the darkness”. The Bible further says in John 3 “The Light has come into the world and the children of men loved the darkness more than the Light, “.
 

Just like we all sin, we all have a choice. You can choose to open your heart to Jesus and He will come in and LIGHT you up. He will fill you with love so you can love Him, love others and love yourself. He will always be with you to help you get through what this world at war throws at you. He will restore your SOUL! The biblical meaning of the word “ restoration ” is to receive back more than has been lost to the point where the final state is greater than the original condition. The main point is that someone or something is improved beyond measure. That’s our Jesus. He is our Shepherd. He will lead you and guide you through life. And while you are going He will restore your soul from the inside out.

 
 
 
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