Is our ladder against the wrong wall?

 A friend and I were talking about spiritual development and he brought up a point that I not really seriously considered before. His statement was that most of us talk about body, soul and spirit but really we should look at it the other way round because whatever comes first is the most important. When we say body, soul and spirit we are saying that our body is the most important. For most of us if we are honest that is the way we live. Our body and soul get the most attention. However our spirit is actually the eternal component, so if we even only applied logic we should look at spirit, soul and body. Our spirit is the most important part of us.

The world in general understands the value of looking after our body and soul. There is a huge chunk of the modern world that devotes itself to the welfare of those two components. Our body with the medical profession, health and fitness programmes, nutritionists, personal trainers, and the list goes on. Our soul is ministered to by the counsellors, life coaches, psychologists, support groups and all minds of other people. These components are both going to disappear to a large extent.

I come back to the fact that our eternal dimension i.e. our spirit seems to be neglected to a large extent. Even the world in the early part of the 21st century is coming to realise the importance of the spirit. They are on a search for truth and we have the answer " Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life, no one gets to the Father except through me." This is a spirit statement from one spirit to another it can only be understood "in the Spirit".

If we made a decision to place our spiritual development first or even on a par with the other two. How would that change us? Let us think moving the ladder to the spirit wall first and trust that will lead us to develop the other two.

Spirit, Soul and Body: I took the "Road less Travelled" and it made all the difference. I am beginning to put my spiritual development first, how about you?