The Logos at work

1Thessalonians 2:13 … when you received the word (Logos) of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in (energao - energizes) you who believe.

James 1:21… Humbly receive the implanted word (Logos), which is able to save your souls.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word (Logos) of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, making a division between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires. That is the way to go forward in life!

The soul and the spirit are not opposed to each other, but they operate with different energies. The energy of the soul operates by the movement of our emotion, directed by our will, according to what our mind tells us what is ‘good’ for us to have or to do. Our minds can be corrupted by the spirit of the ‘age’, the intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era (Zeitgeist). There is a frenzied unbridled spirit abroad that is emotionally hyperactive and lawless. It seeks to destroy long established and time honoured values, and punish the people who hold to them. This is in the sense that laws are meant to be made by respecting the accumulated wisdom of those who have gone before us to shape a civilized community of God fearing people into the present day. God’s absolute Law for the government of human behaviour in a community is the Ten Commandments. Jesus elaborated on the application of these in the setting of his time (eg, killing/anger). Godly wisdom gets applied in areas of unexplored territory so as to serve the entire community (RBT), and not just special interests. Godly government under God strives to realize this in the midst of hollow and pretentious agendas.

Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this age (aion) but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Ephesians 2:2 you once walked according to the age (aion) of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience.

BUT…

The energy of our spirit, joined by faith to God’s Spirit releases the energy of Logos, the Word, Jesus, Who is the energy that uphold and orders the Universe.
Hebrews 1:3 who upholds all things by the word (Logos) of His power…
Living according to the Word is more than simply reading the Word; it is reaching into the implanted Logos , the seed, with its DNA, and aligning our mind and heart to that, to release that energy from our spirit through into our souls, which becomes reordered in its RENEWED MINDSET of truth, anchored in emotional stability and graced in its yielded and redirected will. You are a walking, talking Logos in action, part of God’s action.