This month’s focus on Sabbath Rest and Keeping the Sabbath Wholly point towards what John Ortberg calls Soul Keeping. As he puts it, “While we might be living in a context of a career or family or community or service, there is a soul that integrates our whole person — will, mind, and body — into an unceasing spiritual being with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.” Our soul is the ultimate reality of who we are—beyond today’s circumstance or context.
Ortberg explains that when he was entering into a very busy season of ministry, he called Dallas Willard for advice on staying spiritually healthy. After a long pause, Willard replied, “You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life. There is nothing else. Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day. You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.”
Willard went on to explain, “The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity. You are an unceasing spiritual being with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe. That’s the most important thing for you to know about you.”
Ortberg provides tips on “Caring for the Most Important Part of You” in his book Soul Keeping.
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