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Mapping Your Inside Out: The 3-Part Roadmap to Understanding Who You Are

Posted in Human Body, Feelings, My Body, tagged , on May 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Before GPS, an outdated paper map meant getting hopelessly lost.

Life works the same way. If you do not understand how you are built, navigating daily life feels chaotic. Reading the Bible feels like decoding a foreign language.

To find your way, you must understand your three internal layers.

The Triune Design: Body, Soul, and Spirit

You are a three-part being:

  • The Body: Your physical shell. It drives your physical senses, energy, and urges.
  • The Soul: Your command center. This houses your mind, emotions, and decisions. It chooses how to react to your body.
  • The Spirit: Your deepest core. This is your intuition, conscience, and direct line to God.

Learning the Languages

We easily understand physical cues. When a kid’s stomach growls, they learn it means hunger.

But reading your spirit does not come naturally. Without Christ, the human spirit sits dormant, quiet, and unlearned.

Once your spirit is activated, Scripture unlocks. You finally begin understand which part of you is screaming for attention, which can / should be ignored.

Hard Questions, Clear Answers

1. “What if I don’t feel saved?”

Salvation is not an emotional high or an analytical thought. Emotions fluctuate constantly. True assurance originates in your spirit.

“The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.” – Romans 8:16

2. “Why do I still have a bad temper?”

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” – 2 Corinthians 5:18

If you are a new creation in Christ, why do you still struggle? Because your body and old mental habits did not magically change. Your spirit did.

“Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.” – James 1:21

Your core is brand new and wants to please God. Now, you must train your soul (your mind and emotions) to catch up by consuming Scripture and staying connected to Christ.

The Takeaway

If you have not surrendered to Jesus, do that now. Ask him to come into your life and be your boss. Let him birth your spirit and place God’s Spirit there.

If you have surrendered to Jesus, stop letting physical urges and emotional mood swings run your life. You are a soul, living in a body, powered by a spirit. Quiet the external noise, lock into your spirit, and let God guide your roadmap.

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Understanding Western Life and Culture

Posted in Dallas Willard, Human Body, Quotes on October 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. – 1st Corinthians 6:13b-14

“THE HUMAN BODY is … created for spiritual life in the kingdom of God and to be honored—indeed, glorified—in that context. But when taken out of that context and made the central focus of human experience and endeavor, it is betrayed—robbed of the spiritual resources meant to sustain its life and proper functioning—and in turn it then betrays those who center their life on it.

The sense of this betrayal is what lies at the heart of youth worship in Western societies.

It also is the source of the fear, shame, disgust, and even the anger directed at fat, old age (or just aging), and death and dying that dominate our culture.

An outlook focused entirely on the body finds the body’s failure and cessation to be, of course, the ultimate insult from which there is no recovery.

You have to understand this if you want to understand Western life and culture” – Dallas Willard1

– fritz


1 – Renovation of the Heart, NavPress, copyright 1992, page 184

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A Whole Person

Posted in Human Body, tagged , , on July 23, 2010| Leave a Comment »

[T]he very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” – 1st Thessalonians 5:23

It is a mistake to believe God is only interested in our “soul”.

God created us spirit, soul, and body1 in his image2 and for a reason. One should presume the original intent has not been changed, only delayed, by humanity’s obstinance.

Jesus came to preserve the whole person and fulfill God’s design in us. Submitted to God, our bodies are holy and pleasing3 to him and he has a divine purpose for them.

Take care of your body, God has a use for it.

– fritz
1 – Genesis 2:7 – “breath” and “spirit” are the word in Hebrew
2 – Genesis 1:26
3 – Romans 12:1

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