I Command My Soul…
Mark 12:30 (Amplified Bible (AMP)
30And you shall love the Lord your God out of and with your whole heart and out of and with all your soul (your life) and out of and with all your mind (with your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength. This is the first and principal commandment.
We have two dogs, the sixteen year old named Fuji is a Yorkshire Terrier, and then we have the young’in Sheba, who is a Pomeranian, who is only four. When Fuji was younger we taught him commands and trained him to some degree. But when we got Sheba, she was sick, and so my daughter coddled her and babied her and did not discipline her, so she is very hard head and she gets an attitude as if she was human and she does not follow the commands or even have the fear of her master as Fuji does. You see the ability to control the dogs and for them to adhere to our commands came as a result of us training them and the method we implemented or did not implement.
This is the same with us spiritually, we can never command our soul to be in a certain posture if we never teach or train it to do so… I have used this analogy before and it works for me so I will use it again, we are like a two headed dog, and whichever head we feed will become the strongest. If we feed our flesh, we will be commanded by our flesh, it will take us places, and get us into things that will do damage to our relationship with God. If we feed our spirit by submitting to the Word of God, praying, meditating, going to church, being around individuals that encourage us in the Word and in our Spiritual journey then we will find ourselves in a place of spiritual growth and maturity; a place where God abides and we will find ourselves walking after the things of God and aspiring to do things to advance the Kingdom of God and bring us closer to our Father God.
Most of us would safely declare that we want the place of blessing and the closeness with God, BUT it is that training thing, that disciplining ourselves that is getting to most of us and keeping us from doing God’s will and growing in the faith. We all want it to come so easy. We are in a season of microwave Christianity, we want to confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus Christ and believe in our heart and two weeks later without any reproof, discipline, instruction, training, studying or growth we want to be able to minister to the masses, but not to have to give up anything or go through anything to get there. The devil is a liar, the anointing of God cost, and it doesn’t just cost a little it is costly, it is expensive. It cost of time, and giving of ourselves to God, without letting the flesh keeps us from being trained. It means that we will love when it is uncomfortable because God commanded us to. It means becoming the sacrifice, the one that looks different, walks and talks different in our circle. The one that sometimes will end up giving away more than what we think is owed or needed. It means God is first and following what He commands becomes the priority in our lives over how our flesh feels. It means being a vessel that is used by God.
See our soul will never make a boast of God or anyone other than ourselves if we never bring our flesh under subjection and train it, by command and by the power given to us, through the Spirit of God. You see I command myself to worship God even when it is not convenient, to my flesh. I command my soul to come into subjection when I am called to fast. I command my soul to love God with every bit of me to include my body that is to stay pure until marriage. I command my soul to love my neighbor as myself even when I don’t think my neighbor is worthy of my love, or even the same air that I breathe. Can you say the same, can you command your soul, is it trained, and under subjection, or is it the diva, the unruly child, trying to get its way and winning?
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