How's Your Soul

We need to grow in maturity until we can distinguish what restraints are healthy and submit ourselves to those restraints

Don’t wait for a certain role to come along. Your soul’s happiness and health are not dependent upon a role. Your soul was designed to do whatever you do with everything within it.

The Bible says, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might” (Ecclesiastes 9:10 NIV)

That’s not how our souls operate. We need assignments, we need work, and we need activity.

Serving makes your soul feel good. It makes you feel alive on the inside. Your soul finds fulfillment, health, and life when you live beyond yourself.

The biblical progression is first grace, then faith, then works. That is the divine order. God gives us his grace, and we respond in faith, and eventually our faith and relationship with God produce a healthy, holy lifestyle.

Do you want to live an effective life? It’s not as complicated as some might say it is. First, yield to God, your Creator and your Father. Turn over control of your ways and your days to him. And second, receive from the community that God puts around you. It’s that simple. Stay surrendered and stay surrounded.

He listed seven specific friends he wants the church of Corinth to know, to care for, to meet, to appreciate, and to befriend.
Paul isn’t just surrendered—he’s surrounded.

Some people think surrender is a sacrifice. I see surrender as the safest place to live. If God is leading, then all the pressure is on him

Life is a journey.
I think we should change the question. Rather than asking, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” we should ask a far more important question: “What do you want your life to look like?” Or maybe, “What kind of soul do you want to have?”