Biblical Holistic Living

“Holistic living” almost feels like a cliche these days. So many just throw the word around without giving it much thought as to what it actually means. Biblical holistic living, not so much. When one chooses to live their life holistically from a biblical standpoint, that means they choose to live out their lives from what the Bible deems as right living: mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually, nutritionally.

See, The Creator created us as interconnected beings, meaning you cannot separate one piece of ourselves from the other pieces and still be whole complete beings. When one part of us is “off” then really, all of us is “off.” And so it’s important to look at ourselves as whole beings. We have to choose to understand that our body is connected to our mind and our mind is connected to our spirit and our spirit is connected to our body.

May the Elohim of shalom make you completely holy – may your entire spirit, soul and body be kept blameless for the coming of our Master Yahshua the Messiah.”

1 Thessalonians 5:23 CJB

So how might this look from a practical standpoint? Well, honestly, there’s a variety of ways to do this. Practically, we address each area: our spirit, our mind, and our body. Let’s take a look at a few things below.

Spiritually

In 1 Corinthians 6:17 we’re told that the one who is joined with our Lord is one spirit and a few verses later we’re told to glorify Elohim {God} in our body and in our spirit because they are both His. However, how can we really do this? Well, if we are joined to Him that means we know Him. And how do we get to know someone? We spend time with them; we learn their ways; we listen to them; we invest our time and sometimes some of our other resources into them. So how do we get to know our Great Elohim? We read His Word. That’s the number one way to get to know Him. While many disregard the “Old Testament” as outdated and “for the Jews” that’s just simply not true. The “Old Testament” is the Heart of our Creator, The Father, Yahweh. All throughout the “New Testament,” both Yahshua {Jesus} and His disciples teach from The Scriptures; they didn’t have the “New Testament” back then, they only had the Scriptures: the Torah, Prophets, and writings. There are around 855 quotes from the OT in the NT. That’s a lot of quotes! And many seem to misunderstand or aren’t even aware of the fact that Yahshua, Paul, Peter, John, James plus countless others in the NT were actually “Jewish” and not just “Jewish” because of their lineage, but they fully practiced the Law that was given to Moses!

I will write about this in greater length in another post, however, for now, I’ll suffice to say this, if following Yahweh’s Laws, laid out for us in the “Old Testament” was good enough for Yahshua, our Saviour, then it truly should be good enough for us. And so, I believe, to fully live a holistic life we need to live by the guidelines our Creator laid out for us. Reading and choosing to believe our Heavenly Father and live in His ways and live out His ways is how we live a biblically holistic life.

Physically/Nutritionally

Our bodies are actually gifts. I’m not certain how many people truly see it this way, but it’s true. Think about it. Apparently, the odds of each one of us being born is about 1 in 400 trillion, at least that’s what’s being said. Dr. Ali Binazir has this to say about it:

Imagine there was one life preserver thrown somewhere in some ocean, with exactly one turtle in all of these oceans, swimming underwater somewhere. The probability that you came about is the same as that turtle sticking its head out of the water — into the middle of that life preserver. On one try.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/probability-being-born_b_877853

I’d say that’s kind of a good gift, wouldn’t you?