There are really only 2 ways to walk

All of us want life to be good. We want to be blessed. People should be nice, we should enjoy the comforts of life - good food, warm home, people who love us. While some may deny it, only the true hedonists seek only physical pleasure. The human condition is made with a soul that desperately wants to be satisfied.




If you combine what psychologists, sociologists, theologians, and anthropologists have found about the soul's needs, you could probably summarize it with six dimensions: joy, purpose, hope, freedom, esteem, belonging.

The soul receives its signals for well-being from our physical reality and our invisible reality, although many deny there is a spiritual reality. There are many philosophies and religions that seek to explain the interaction of the body, soul, and spirit, all pointing to how we can life a satisfied life.

When you sort through all the experts views on the paths to satisfaction, there are really only two. We can either earn benefits from our circumstances through exchanging our actions with the world around us OR we can receive what we are given from an unmerited favor. The Bible calls the former "walking in the flesh" and the latter "walking in the Spirit." The former leads to death and the latter leads to life.

It is obvious that this reference to "death" and "life" does not refer to our physical body's life (what the Greeks called "bios"). No one escapes death of the body. Then this idea of two ways to walk must refer to whether the soul has life or not. There may be better theological ways to express this but the bottom line is that having what we need bestowed on us by the One who has the power to give us what we need is a more excellent way than earning what we need by our actions in the world.

The privileges and provisions of the Heavenlies shower our soul with satisfaction as we receive, in faith, what we have been given. This is God's plan for our good and His Glory.

There are only two ways to walk, two worldviews

“Either gain through exchange or receive the gift – which path do I take?”