Remember the moments you have felt God in your soul: how would you describe something so deeply felt, yet so difficult to explain?
Feeling God in your soul is an experience that I have realised cannot be forced. No matter how deeply we may wish for someone else to experience it, it is not something we can simply make them feel. This brings forth the question: What makes a person who believes in God and a person who does not believe in God different? Simply holding knowledge of his teachings and words, does not compare with being unshakably certain, firmly convinced, of God’s existence in your very soul.
Just as Matthew 22:37 tells us, we are called to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind”.
Amongst the three mentioned, we are often reminded to guard our hearts and our minds. Our heart warms with quiet comfort, aches with grief, and quickens for everything that excites us, whether for good or for bad. Our mind rationalises and races, and our thoughts can weigh heavily upon us. But what does our soul feel like? And despite its vulnerability, can it be guarded from corruptive forces?
We definitely have a soul; the soul may always be present, but such an awareness might otherwise remain unnoticed if we are unattuned to it. Feeling God in our souls transcends all understanding. Feeling God in our souls is an otherworldly encounter that awakens us to its existence and reveals it in all its glory! This dawned on me when I experienced the unmistakable difference between momentarily losing touch with God and feeling Him touch my soul again. My soul, which once felt adrift, floating, vulnerable, and unable to name what was missing, felt whole when I felt God again. I now understand how unique and sacred a connection feeling God in your soul is – one which a person who has never experienced such a connection could never fathom and imagine is possible, a personal relationship that
exists beyond what the world can fully explain. It is a connection so precious it is to be sought after constantly.
In contrast, our hearts and minds feel more accessible, malleable, and exposed. Our souls, however, reside deeper within us, intangible, and hopefully protected, further out of reach from the evils of the world, yet also harder to let into. Perhaps then, to truly be redeemed and healed, we must experience God personally, in our souls.
“5 For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. 6 He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.” Psalm 62:5-6
Seraphina Yeo
