One: One as on the Same Page/ The Actions of a Single Heart and Soul

 The Actions of a Single Heart and Soul:

There is a guiding impetus in all bodies. Some may call it a mindset. When the toes wiggle, it is the brain that sends the guiding electrical impulse. The brain rules the body, but the brain is, itself, just a member of the body. What rules the brain? Long answer short, it is the mind. That being said, the mind is the spirit. All living bodies derive life and purpose from the spirit of life, the living Spirit. Without that spirit, a body only possesses basic functions, like an amoeba. By the spirit, single cells combine under the spirit of purpose, a common goal. An organ does not decide what it wants to be, or where it wants to be in the body. Guidance for such as that is derived from the spirit. It is the spirit of guidance that calls the organ into its place and purpose. In older, more poetic texts, the guiding organ is the heart. These days, we know that the heart is neither responsible for the thoughts we think, nor for the emotions we feel. The spirit of God rules, first through the mind, and then through the brain. We know that the brain is called like any other organ of the body. Colossians 3:15 “And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body.”

Men differentiate between the intellectual and the emotional. In reality, both functions are centered in the mind. Men differentiate between the body and the soul. In reality, a soul is not separate from the body. In the Bible, Adam was called a living soul only after the flesh had been augmented with spirit. A soul is a thinking body. A soul is an individual capable of receiving instructions from the spirit that is one with the body. A soul is the perfect combination of vehicle and driver. The actions of a single soul are the actions of a single heart: which is the mind: which is the spirit: which is God. God is one: it therefore follows that the spirit within man is a spirit of unity and singularity. The spirit is expressed in many forms from least to most. We see the spirit of unity and singularity in a family, a race, a nationality, a religious belief, a cause. The tenets of unity and singularity are expressed in that which is held in common. One heart, one soul, one belief, one direction, one responsibility to the body whole. Acts 4:32 “And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things common.”