the vision to transform my soul 1

When we think of soul, there are three main ways people think of it. I would argue none of these is correct.

The first way is just a vague sense of a characteristic or property of a person that you have or you don’t.

“He’s got soul.”

The second way people think of soul is an immaterial entity that is contained within them.

“I love you down to my very soul.”

The third way people think about soul is to say it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing. We are completely physical in all we are and any other sense of who we are comes from electrical impulses in our circuitry and chemical reactions.

“It’s just how we are wired.”

Dallas Willard offers a fourth view. Your soul is beyond our body. It contains your body, but it is much bigger than that. Your soul is the organizing force that holds together heart, the mind’s thoughts and feelings, the body, and our relationships. The soul is the CEO of who we are.

Dallas further speaks of our soul being as being given to us by God at conception and through it creates and organizes our DNA and all the life that follows.

This may all seem strange to you, but if it is true, if our souls are real and organizing our parts together, then we are missing out on the key knowledge of who we really are, because this certainly is not a standard course of study in high school or the university, indeed in churches or everyday conversation. More tomorrow.