God commanded us to love Him with things we could affect
29 But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deut 4
5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength
Deut 6
30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'
Mark 12
24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth
John 4
23 May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thess 5
It strikes me we are not made spirit beings, we have a spiritual birth in Christ, we are a new creation, but we are not spirit beings though born of the Holy Spirit.
Our spirit appears to be our emotional state. In good spirits, a spirit of joy, a spirit of fear etc.
11 "Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul."
Job 7
So when we are born again, our new creation is reflected in our hearts, soul and minds with the strength to more forward in obedience to Christ through the cross.
29 But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deut 4
5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength
Deut 6
30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'
Mark 12
24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth
John 4
23 May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thess 5
It strikes me we are not made spirit beings, we have a spiritual birth in Christ, we are a new creation, but we are not spirit beings though born of the Holy Spirit.
Our spirit appears to be our emotional state. In good spirits, a spirit of joy, a spirit of fear etc.
11 "Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul."
Job 7
So when we are born again, our new creation is reflected in our hearts, soul and minds with the strength to more forward in obedience to Christ through the cross.