How Knowing My Human Spirit Affected My Christian Life
We hope you enjoy this BfA staff member’s testimony about discovering her human spirit and the profound impact it had on her.
The blog post “The Immense Significance of the Human Spirit” really touched me because it talked about exactly what I have experienced. Ever since I began to see in the Bible that I have a human spirit and then to actually experience the Lord who lives there, my life has never been the same.
Before then, I had always felt deep within that something was missing in my Christian life. After you believe in the Lord and get saved, then what? What did God want? What was being a Christian all about? For a period of time, I thought that maybe the Lord wanted me to help people. I thought of becoming some kind of doctor or joining the Peace Corps. And then other times, I thought He wanted me to pursue and fulfill my dreams.
There’s a very specific moment in my life after graduating from high school that I’ll never forget. I laid in bed next to my two younger sisters, tears streamed down my face as I tried not to wake them up. I was so desperate for something real. So I cried out to the Lord, “Lord, You have to be real to me! I can’t go on if You aren’t real to me!”
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The Lord answered that prayer when I went to college. There, I met a group of believers who showed me in the Bible that God has a purpose, and that in order to fulfill this purpose He created man with a human spirit to contain and contact Him. Even though I had grown up as a Christian, I had never heard about this crucial truth. These believers helped me to see that the moment I believed in the Lord, He came to dwell in my spirit!
I was also helped to realize that God wants people to experience Him. He wasn’t this impersonal, faraway God that I had to try to please by doing good or by doing something for Him. No, the God of the universe was someone I could turn to, fellowship with, and live by, by contacting Him in my spirit. God became so real to me!
For so long, even after I received the Lord, there had been an emptiness within me that I could never explain or fill. But when I learned to touch the Lord in my spirit, that emptiness disappeared. There was a sense of, “This is it! This is why I was created!” Mankind was created to receive the Lord Jesus and enjoy Him as the Spirit in our spirit.
I am so thankful to the Lord Jesus that this crucial truth was revealed to me, and that I’ve been able to experience Him in my spirit. My prayer is that many others would also discover their human spirit, and that the Lord would become as real to them as He is to me.
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