THERE IS A SPIRIT IN MAN

THERE IS A SPIRIT IN MAN

Power-hungry people focus on the spirit while those who crave wisdom seek to develop that soul. 

 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, 

Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God

1 Corinthians 1:24

The man was created a spirit, but his body was formed. The coming together of the spirit and the body resulted in the soul. 

With the spirit, man can effectively relate with heaven, while with the soul man is able to dominate space, earth, and the deep. 

Two things happened on the sixth day, God formed the animals and also created man from himself and also formed man from the dust of the ground. 

I believe that man formed from the soul was structurally not very different from the animals before the coming of the breath of God. It is the breath of God that separated man from the animals. This is because the breath of God carried within it, the force of intelligence that separated man from the animals. 

The breath of God, therefore, installed in the man before the fall, carries within it, a Spirit that infuses understanding. This understanding powers his imagination with a limitless possibility mentality. 

But there is a spirit in man, 

And the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding. 

Job 32:8

Due to the fall, man lost this Spirit, but praise God for Christmas, it is a season that reminds us of what God had to do to restore this Spirit back to the soul of man. 

Here was God's promise to the one that made the man fall at the beginning. 

 So the Lord God said to the serpent:

“Because you have done this,

You are cursed more than all cattle,

And more than every beast of the field;

On your belly, you shall go,

And you shall eat dust

All the days of your life.

15 And I will put enmity

Between you and the woman,

And between your seed and her Seed;

He shall bruise your head,

And you shall bruise His heel.” 

Genesis 3;14-15

This is where the soul of Christmas stems from. This is God making a promise to recapture man again. How did He achieve this? He made a body for himself - His Spirit and planted it in the body of a virgin that was "highly favoured". 

Emmanuel - God in man, landed on planet earth at Christmas with the mission of taking it back. 

So accepting Jesus into your life is simply receiving His Spirit back into your soul. If you are saved, there is a Spirit in You, and it would give you access to understanding. 

Without understanding, you are not different from a walking dead. 

A man who wanders from the way of understanding

Will rest in the assembly of the dead. Proverbs 21:16

Prayer: 

As you step into the year 2023, receive the grace to accept this free gift of God that was lavished on mankind. Begin to walk in uncommon understanding that would make life worth living in Jesus' name. 

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