Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Hebrews 4:12, “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
The dividing of soul and spirit does not come by our subjective introspection.
None of us by ourselves have the ability to divide our soul and spirit.
Indeed, God never appointed us to do that.
But the word of God that brings to us the governing vision of the entire Bible can divide what is of our soul from what is of our spirit.
This kind of word that defines the vision of God’s purpose, with a call to enter into it, does the dividing work.
We can talk for many years about the soul and spirit being divided and not get very far in our experience.
But once we come under the vision and heavenly revelation of God’s word about His eternal purpose, that word has the effect of making us clear concerning what is from the soul-life and what is from the spirit.
The word as vision has the ability to divide soul and spirit, making everything spiritually clear to us.
The word of God as vision also has discerning ability.
It discerns the thoughts and intents of our heart.
Our heart, with its thoughts and intentions, surely needs to be discerned if we are to live on this earth fulfilling God’s heart’s desire and goal.
If our heart is living for its own goal, and we are presented with the vision of God’s goal of building the church, we will not want to hear about it because it threatens our own private goal.
This is an indication that the vision has discerned us.
If we have to make a choice either to live for our goal or to live for God’s goal, we are in a situation in which our thoughts and intents are exposed to the light of the vision.
Some of us may remember when we were children and were doing something in a sneaky way.
The moment our mother called from the kitchen and asked us what we were doing, her call not only confronted us, but it immediately discerned our bad intents and actions.
That is exactly what vision does.
It has the ability to divide our soul and spirit as well as to discern the thoughts and intents of our heart.
It has the ability to shine on everything in our lives.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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