How important is your faith’s wellbeing to you? If you could know that your faith’s wellbeing actually determines the wellbeing of your human being, would that change how you approach or govern your spirituality?
I harp on the issue of our conversation's wellbeing for a reason. It may seem as though I, and relentlessly, press into the issue of reforming on how we handle our faith's thoughts and feelings, but my intention is to encourage a concern for our conversation's naturally lacking culture. It is because our faith has no healing culture of its own that our heart is not properly cared for. I say so due to how it says, "A sound heart is the life of the flesh," Proverbs 14:30.
The "flesh" mentioned in this proverb ought to not been seen as the literal human flesh, connoting the literal human frame. The Bible actually makes a distinction between our human frame or body and our "flesh" in such verses as, "And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God," Job 19:26.
This verse talks about a great mystery: how can worms destroy a decaying human body, yet in the flesh is a form of survival seemingly untouched by this scene of consumption? We would have to ask, to get our answer, "What sees and is saved for and of 'God'?” We find our answer in how it says, "That the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord," 1 Corinthians 5:5, and, "That which is born of the Spirit is spirit," John 3:6.
Traditional religious understanding is not the understanding within the Bible. What is to see "God" is exactly what bears the form or the context of "God," which is the body of the spirit of our mind. There is much that can be said on the topic of what is to be known of and preserved by the living God, but for the sake of this post, knowing that the Bible separates the physical body from the spiritual body should let us know the "flesh" truly under discussion.
A sound heart is for our flesh, and this can be taken two ways due to how it says, "There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body," 1 Corinthians 15:44. Bible philosophy is about the continuing growth and development of the conversation's conscience, or of the spirit of our faith's mind. When the body of our faith is fed, soundness then travels from the mind of our faith and then into the heart of our human being. The soundness of our heart is what maintains the body of our faith, yet the body of our faith cannot maintain itself unless it is properly cared for.
Our human condition is at the heart of the Bible's philosophy. When we hear, "Be renewed in the spirit of your mind," Ephesians 4:23, we are hearing counsel for us to care for our mind that our human being may be well. How, then, does one demonstrate a care for both the condition of their faith and their human being? It says, "Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt," Ephesians 4:22.
What is corrupt is not "you" or "I." What is "corrupt," in this counsel, is not you or your human being. To the Bible, because the conversation's condition is its first concern, all criticism or praise is given not to the human being, but to the conversation. The Bible encourages a reform in how we handle and discipline our conversation. This is why it says, "To him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God," Psalm 50:23.
It is important to properly handle our conversation because the condition of our faith determines how well our human being is and can be. When the body of our devotional understanding is cared for, soundness, due to the wisdom that body acquires, will find itself within our heart. There is constant communication between our faith's body and the mind within our human frame, and when beginning to care for the condition of our devotional confidence, we are actually beginning to care for the condition of our human being.