You Don’t Contain Soul (and Why That’s Good News)

Ever feel like your body’s running the show? Like your mood, your energy, your worth all depend on what’s happening in this collection of cells? That’s the default story our culture tells. Your “soul” supposedly lives inside your body, doing its best to stay zen while the physical world keeps falling apart around it.

But that’s backwards.
The Bible flips that script completely. “In Him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts 17:28) You don’t contain Soul—Soul contains you. And once you start thinking that way, everything shifts.

Soul isn’t hiding somewhere behind your ribcage. Soul is infinite, unconfined, and you’re its expression, not its container. It’s like sunlight and reflection—you’re the beam, not the bulb.

When Jesus cleared the temple and said, “Destroy this temple and I’ll raise it in three days,” he wasn’t talking construction. He was showing us that the real temple isn’t a body or a building—it’s consciousness that knows its oneness with God. That’s what’s resurrected when we let go of material thinking.

Think of the man at Bethesda Pool. 38 years waiting for the “right conditions.” Jesus didn’t rearrange the system or fix the man’s body. He shifted the man’s thought—from seeing himself as stuck in matter to seeing himself as whole in Spirit. And that shift healed him.

This week’s lesson invites a big reframe: healing isn’t about tweaking flesh, it’s about recognizing identity. When you start from Soul instead of body, you stop trying to patch up something broken. You remember you were never broken.

That doesn’t mean ignoring pain or pretending you’re not human. It means understanding that divine consciousness is the source of life, strength, and beauty—and that’s what’s actually governing you.

Try it next time your body seems to call the shots. Instead of reacting, ask: What’s Soul knowing about me right now? That quiet awareness can override fear faster than any pep talk.

The old belief says, “You live in a body.” The Science of Christ says, “You live in God.” That difference is everything.

So, maybe the question isn’t how to fix the body, but how to see through the body to the reality of Soul’s expression. That’s freedom.

Question to carry this week:
Where have I been waiting for conditions to be right before I believe I’m whole?