We may asked what it meant by spirit. "A spirit has no shape, has no size, has no colour, has no weight, do not occupy space". "God is spirit". We begin with our own spirit, the one we know best. Spirit is the element in us by which we know and love, by which therefore we decide. Our body knows nothing. It loves nothing (bodily pleasures are not enjoyed by the body, it reacts to them physically, with heightened pulse, for instance, or acid stomach; but it is the knowing mind that enjoys the reaction or dislikes them) the body decides nothing (though our will may decide in favour of things that give us bodily pleasure) Spirit knows and loves. A slightly longer look at ourselves reveals that spirit has power too. We aware that in us, spirit does a number of things; it knows and loves, and it animates a body. But what, at the end of all this, is spirit?

One further truth remains to be stated about spirit. It is the permanent thing, the abiding thing. A steady grace will show us that a being that has no parts, no element in it that is not the whole of it, cannot occupy space. Continue to grace and we see that it cannot be changed into anything else; no natural process can destroy it. Spirit is the being that has a permanent hold upon what it is, so that it can never become anything else. A spirit being, therefore cannot lose its identity. It can experience changes in its relation to other beings; for example, it can gain new knowledge or lose knowledge that it has; it can transfer its love from this object to that; it can develop its power over matter, it own body can cease to respond to its animating power and death follow for the body - but with all these things it remains itself, conscious of itself, permanent. We have known all our lives that 'God is spirit.'

As a first step forming our idea on him, we imagine our body away and see our soul...............

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -