The Soul - Where Does It Go?

Friend, the word "soul" which is English for the Greek, "psyche," is mentioned around 500 times in The King James Bible.

God wants us to know He has given us a soul.

It's the supernatural representation of Himself, that He has given to each of us to have a life in the flesh that is different to the animals.

It's what He expects to return to Himself upon our death in the flesh.

He actually owns it even more than He owns the flesh, which will return to the dust of the earth as matter.

Flesh to dust, and soul, the living entity of ourself that is pure, returns to God; BUT is it in the same state as when He gave it life in the flesh?

If it is not, He cannot receive it to Himself.

And, He says in His Word, that none are pure anymore. Not one of us.

It is the consequence from when Eve allowed herself to be tempted in The Garden, she opened the door for evil beings to enter our bodies.

Knowing our situation, and moving only within His Own Perfect Law; He had to consult The Law ( which is Himself, Pure and Perfect) and He found that only a Sacrificial death of flesh which would shed Holy Blood, would appease The Law.

Who would or could that be?

It had to be Himself. Only God if He had a flesh body could have Holy Blood. Angels could not produce Holy Blood by mating with humans.

Only God could Father a child of earthlings, that would produce Holy Blood fit for a Holy Sacrifice, so immense that it would satisfy The Law of all things. 

Jesus The Son, The Word, The One Who Created earth and it's inhabitants, stepped forward - because He loves what He has created, and said, "I will go." ( To be The Holy Sacrifice for us.)

And so He did. 

He left all His Heavenly privileges (not His Power) His beautiful surroundings, His ease of existing, to be confined in an earthly body as a baby, for us; to pay for all the sins of mankind, past present and future mankind and all of those sins.

He experienced our life in the times of meagre living, in a poor family, in a time when much of the Scripture had been trampled over by the church elders, to try to get the people to obey The Law, The Commandments of God.

When the time was right, in God's Perfect Time and Plan for The Whole, He was born into this world to be our Saviour, if we so chose to accept Him as such.

He came to be an example of Holy living as a human; to show His Power to heal and work miracles; to help us to know real Love, to teach us great and mighty things we did not know, to raise some from the dead, to rebuke some, to draw others to Himself, to show Holy Kindness, to show Righteous Anger, to show laying on of hands to pray for others, how to pray to The Father and give us Holy Knowledge and to fulfill the prophecies of The Prophets of God.

The Disciple John said that Jesus uttered so many Words that not enough books could ever be written to contain them!

Oh, if only they could have been written!

But that was not in The Plan of God. 

God knows us through and through. He knows what and when we will accept revelation about Himself. 

He makes no mistakes. He does not err. 

Everything He does is Perfect in every way. 

He is Sovereign in all things.

We have chosen paths that lead away from Him and even in those choosings, He has not been surprised. Built in responses and consequences according to Perfect Law are in place to unlock gates, and doors to paths, roads and highways that lead to the end results of those unlawful choices.

We get to the end of those deadends, and our soul cries out in despair. We don't like it anymore; we want out!

He has made a Way out.

It is through The Holy Door which is opened by His Son who waits for the prodigals to return to Him.

When He does, we see the nail scared wrists and feet.

We know He did that for our soul to be able to be rescued from sins so deep and wide that to us it was impossible.

But there He is. Alive. Living. A Bright and Shining Light, of Love, Truth, Grace and Mercy.

We should all fall to our knees, or on our faces, at the realisation of the enormous cost He paid for our soul; when He, being so Perfect, could have shunted us aside to be burned into nothingness; we are that filthy in His presence. 

But friend, this is our God. He loves what He has created. We are subject to His Law and those of us who will not accept that He had to pay with His own Blood for us to be reconciled to The Father, cannot be allowed by Law to co-exist with Him.

We will be separated from God; no question. 

Satan will claim us. But not for our good. No, he has plans to torture our soul for eternity.