Your Spiritual Side
Our life can only be truly fulfilled when we acknowledge we have a spiritual side and strive to satisfy it’s needs. Our bodies are basically animalistic with common urges and lusts, and tends to be negative. Our human bodies can be directed to become positive if we use our wills to overcome our human feelings and desires. It takes a strong application or our will to overcome a habit like smoking or overeating. Our spiritual side is of a higher order or being that exists in a unmaterialistic, dimensionless world. Our spiritual side is a reflection of our morals or motives. If we have good morals and motives, our spiritual side is positive, but if we have evil morals and motives, our spiritual side will be negative. Jesus said, “Out of the good or bad stored in the heart the mouth speaks.”
All humans since Adam have had a spiritual side, it is often referred to as our soul or heart. It is the part of us that will live on after our bodies die. I don’t know exactly what it is, so I can’t describe it to you, but it is a part of each of us we can contact directly, just as we can’t contact God directly. We can pray mentally or verbally to God, but He also knows all out thoughts and feelings, that is why we can’t ever fool God. Our soul also is like God because it sees all of our hidden and open feelings and thoughts. Think of it as a hard drive in a computer that stores all of our thoughts, feelings, moral, and motives. Just like a hard drive in a computer we can overwrite negative data with positive data, but it will take some time before much of a change will be noticed.
Spiritual Principles At Work
There are some spiritual principles at work in your life all the time. They work due to power from your spiritual side, and they affect your human or materialistic life, but they are controlled by inputs from your human side or thinking brain.
The first spiritual principle has to do with what you expect, if you expect good things will happen to you, that is exactly what you will get in your life. If you expect bad things to happen to you, that is exactly what you will get in your life. If you are like most people, you expect some good and some bad things and you will then get a mixture of good and bad in your life. If you change your human inputs by changing your attitudes and beliefs from negative to positive, you will change what you see happening in your life from negative to positive.
The second spiritual principle has to do with the way your are treated or judged will be based on how your treat and judge others. Your spiritual side some how keeps track of how you treat others, and somehow has the power to give you back what you give out. If you have always treated others badly but are tired of getting crapped on yourself, you need to start treating others good and so you will someday get treated good yourself.
These spiritual principles greatly affect our human or materialistic sides and are controlled by our brains and human actions, but they have a lot to do with the condition of our spiritual side which is a sum total of the collected data on how we live our lives.
Spiritual Needs
Our spiritual side also has some needs that operate on a higher level in us and in the spiritual world, but they also need input from our human brain and actions. The only way we can ever feel satisfied in this life is when we strive to fulfill them by the properly recognizing them with input from our brains and actions.
Our first spiritual need is for us to believe in a higher power or that there is a God and a spiritual world. You can deny the existence of both, but until you do you will never satisfy your spiritual need for God.
Our second spiritual need is for a personal relationship with God. God has been with you every second of your life, all you need to do is complete you side of the relationship and continue to work on it the rest of you life, and you will satisfy this spiritual need.
Our third spiritual need is for love. We think we need the love of a human so we chase after it all our lives and never seem to find the love we need, at least not on a lasting basis. The real problem with love is what we really need is the love of God and that is why we can never find the love we need from other humans. We also need to have love, but again most important we need to give love to God in return for His great love for us. We also are directed to love our neighbors as ourselves, but we can only do that when we first satisfy or two way love with God, and when we can finally love ourselves in a balanced way.
Our fourth spiritual need is to obey God, not for what we can get, but mostly just to satisfy our need to do right. When we obey God we get a peace that the world doesn’t know anything about. Obeying God is not just doing good when we feel like it, but when we don’t feel like it. We humans will never do an adequate job of obeying God, but that is OK, because God doesn’t expect us to ever be perfect. Obeying God is a way of life or journey that will continue until the day we die.
All of the above are spiritual needs we all have, but God also has things He needs from us. The good news is, when we satisfy our spiritual needs, we are also taking care of the things that God needs from us, because Gods needs are one in the same as ours are.
