God – The Spiritual Immune System, part 1/4.

God – The Spiritual Immune System, part 1/4.

Why do we need to have a spiritual immune system? That’s easy. Life is hard, life is rough, life is difficult, even if we don’t talk about spiritual battles. Our faith is on line every day. In order to be able to feel spiritually well and live our lives according to God’s will we need to have the best spiritual immune system possible! But make no mistake: God is our source of health and healing.

Praise the LORD, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
Praise the LORD, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits-
who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
(Psalm 103:1-5, NIV)

The formula for spiritual health is very simple. It does not require magic, it’s all about God. It’s just like taking care of our physical health: We need to have a healthy diet and a good balance of exercise and rest. All that together equals as the immune system. Rest + Nutrition + Exercise = The Immune System.

Let’s see how that would look in our spiritual life. I know God is way more than any equation could ever be. I am just trying to simplify in order to understand how God provides for our spiritual needs. So this is what I came up with:

God (the Spiritual Immune System) = the Father (Rest) + the Son (Nutrition)+ the Holy Spirit (Exercise).

Of course, the unity of God is present in every action! But this formula could help us to see that our faith needs to have a good balance of the triune God in order to truly be the best spiritual immune system for us. If one part is missing we are not fully protected against the attacks of the world. The triune God is the best possible spiritual immune system! The formula also tells us that we need to take care of our faith. We need to feed it, exercise it and have enough rest. More about each of these aspects of the formula on the future posts (parts 2-4).

Father leads us, Christ restores us and the Holy Spirit energizes us.
Father loves us, Christ heals and the Holy Spirit equips us.
Father calls us, Christ claims us and the Holy Spirit sends us out to the world.

Gracious God,
How amazing you are!
You provide everything we need!
You are everything we need!
Come and restore us according to your will.
Help us to fight the good fight here on the earth.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen

Q4U: What do you think about this approach?

The Spiritual Immune System, part 2/4 will be about the Father (Rest).
The Spiritual Immune System, part 3/4 will be about the Son (Nutrition).
The Spiritual Immune System, part 4/4 will be about The Holy Spirit (Exercise).
Stay tuned!!

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Embraced to Embrace
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Zealous Prayer Life
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Blessings to you!

2 thoughts on “God – The Spiritual Immune System, part 1/4.

  1. It sounds good that Spiritual Immune System.
    That how we keep on our communication with God and shall we surrender to Him when He is waiting for us.
    That needs much and more excercises, I think 🙂

  2. Thank you for your comment, sister! Yes, God is waiting for us his arms wide open. It's true that we never exercise enough surrending to God. May you be richly blessed!

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