GodReflection:Is It Well with My Soul?
For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come (1 Timothy 4:8).
The exercise market is booming without my participation. I haven’t read any statistics yet I notice gym parking lots overflow on Sunday mornings. Big box gymnasiums with lap pools and all types of exercise machine known to mankind leave only room enough for trainers and the committed to fill each square foot of floor space with their worshipful presence.
Faithfully, Sunday congregants fellowship at these mega sites and throughout the week 
in their neighborhood strip mall locations. For daily devotion time homes provide space for treadmills and bounce balls. Likewise, marathons, sports fields and courts vie for calendar space.
Should the old apostle who wrote to Timothy pop into our twenty first century I suspect even he would step back in amazement at my culture’s emphasis on physical training.
Physical training is not the only industry that competes for our attention. Trillions of monetary, physical and intellectual resources pour into efforts to feed, heal, shelter, 
transport and cloth our bodies. Market specialist invade every conscious moment to increase our relentless appetites.
In stark contrast my mailbox, television and news feeds aren’t saturated with the Creator’s tips on how to nurture my soul. The old adage “out of sight out of mind” describes the challenge to maintain soul health.
I have come to recognize two insights important to my souls’ fitness. First, my soul seems to be hardwired by God to gravitate toward Him. I read in the Psalms: As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God (Psalms 42:1-2), Truly my soul finds rest in God (Psalms 62:1) and My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God (Psalms 84:2).
However, even with a ‘God-draw’ implanted within I find it far too easy to experience soul malnutrition. That brings me to my second AHA: soul care requires intentionality.
Here is my concern: resources for my physical body shout for my attention. It is as if the care for my body is in default mode while soul care doesn’t receive the same billing. I have to be more purposeful in the search for soul nutrients.
Maybe I need to explore a variety of avenues to assure my soul is refreshed. I want to look at ways to feed my soul. In my next post I will look at soul food. Some of the ideas I propose to examine are how soul nutrition comes through Scripture, through submission of my heart to Jesus, through my daily walk and through soul music and soul talk.
At this point in my life I see no way around what seems to be the fact that soul care assures soul health.
Will you share with me ways you have discovered to nurture your ‘inner you’ and to keep your own soul healthy? What works for you to be more intentional with your soul care?
Dr. Gary J. Sorrells
A GodReflection: Soul Care Assures Soul Health
God Reflection 
Gary, I read your blog regularly and am grateful for your insight and thoughts. In answer to your question about nurturing the inner self, one of the things I have done….intentionally….is to control what I allow into my mind….what I watch, what I listen to, what I read, what I hear around me. And that has helped me to focus on my spiritual walk with Jesus….which over the years was all over the place. Terry
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