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Little Bit of Soul

Put a little soul in your pocket
Put a little soul in the street
Put a little soul in something
Put a little soul in me

Put a little soul in your music
Put a little soul in your groove
Put a little soul in something
Put a little soul in you

Put a little soul in your living
Put a little soul in your time
Put a little soul in your religion
Put a little soul in mine

Just a little bit
Just a little bit
A little bit of soul

- King’s X

There are those who live believing they should be focused mainly on the spiritual. They say the spiritual is what matters the most. Like the Gnostics, those same people would ignore the physical and sensual saying that it is evil. The problem is that the spiritual alone promises what it can never deliver apart from life in a physical world.

There are those who say, “there is no spiritual – science has proven that the physical is all there is. Satisfy the sensual because it is what brings pleasure and there is no moral law to prevent indulgence.” The product of that indulgence is vain, or fat, or without love and a slow death comes from the comfort and pleasure. The problem is that the physical and sensual alone leaves one feeling empty.

It seems to me that the answer is to live from the soul. I’ve heard a few definitions of what our soul is. Many are either too technical for my mind to grasp or so simplistic they seem absurd. For me the soul is who I am in a holistic sense. It is both physical and metaphysical. It is life lived from both the spiritual and the sensual.

I don’t know how King’s X is defining “soul” but I do know that whatever it is, my life is missing a little bit of soul. It is a fine line to walk and I wish I could find the balance.

I am saying that the human soul was made to be strong … For too long we have belittled theology in favor of passion, or belittled passion in favor of theology. We were created to know much about God, and we were created to feel much for God.

- John Piper