09/17/2026
2022 memories
SEPTEMBER WORSHIP THOUGHT
By Soror Audra Vasser-Walker aka “Unshaken”
Paul prayed a wonderful prayer for the Thessalonian’s in which he spoke of wholeness: “May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Thessalonians 5:23
When most people think of wholeness or what it means to be whole, they automatically think of things such as health, sickness, injury, or death. However, wholeness is a matter of harmony consisting of body, soul, and spirit. The dictionary definition means to restore someone to a sound, healthy, or otherwise favorable condition. In summary, it is living in such a way that all facets and aspects of our lives are interrelated in a healthy, giving, sound, and resilient way.
When God breaks us, he does so with the purpose of putting us back together again better than we were before, ultimately, so that we might once again be whole!
Look to your spiritual self for the glue that will make you whole again. Incorporate self-forgiveness, self-love, meditate and anything else that you can do to help find peace within yourself. This is an internal process with an external effect/outcome. As you heal, so too are you helping to heal the world making the things that you do ordinarily appear seamless and unified.
Wholeness involves all of our being – body, soul, and spirit. The body is the way in which we relate to our environment through our five senses – smell, see, taste, hear, and touch. Through our soul we have a mind, will, emotions, conscience, and consciousness! Even though we can’t see the soul, it is our means for relating to other people and having an awareness of ourselves when doing so. The spirit is the inner person in which we relate to the almighty God!
Our sinful state is a state of inner death. A person may do very well in the physical realm, and even do quite well in the soul realm, but unless a person is in right relationship with God through Jesus Christ, he or she is dead in the spirit realm. Only a believer in Jesus Christ has the potential to be a whole person because unless the spirit is made alive in Christ, the spirit facet of a person is out of sync with the rest of his or her being. We cannot be whole if we have only a good body and good relationship with the physical world, and a good soul and good relationships with other people. In order for the Lord to bring us to wholeness, he must deal with the areas of our lives and the obstacles that keep us from it such as rebellion of the spirit which include:
- Lack of trust - Hatred
- Pride - Jealousy
- Greed - Bitterness
- Anger - Fear
Therefore, leaving us with a cleansed spirit and a good relationship with God.
We often lose sight of the fact that this life is preparation for the life to come. The process is one that is much like going to school where we learn to grow and develop the things that we know to be right and pleasing in God’s sight. It is a process of becoming and when we yield to God’s purposes, the process is one of becoming whole. Sure, it takes time but no mathematical calculation is possible between finite time and infinity. We can always trust God’s purpose for us to be full of wholeness and multiplication, not fragmentation or diminishment. God is not the co-pilot of my life; he is the pilot! I yield total control to him.
“Allow perseverance to finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” James 1:4
“Therefore, beloved as you anticipate these things, make every effort to be found at peace—spotless and blameless in His sight.” 2ndPeter 3:14
