There is a very famous line in Psalm 23 that says "He restoreth my soul." What does that mean? What is my soul and how can God restore it?
Your soul is your individual personality. The thinking and feeling part of you. So when the Psalmist says, "He restoreth my soul," he is saying "God restores my personality."
Many of us need a soul restoration. Our personalities have been wrecked by rejection, heart-break, disappointment, and embarrassment. Other soul wreckers include the negative emotions of anger, fear, and jealousy. All of these turn us into people we were never intended to be.
I don't like when people say, "That's just the way I am," or "I'm the kind of person who..." I venture to say anyone who begins sentences that way needs a soul restoration.
You are not a shock to God. You were made to be you and nobody else. However, negative emotions or hurtful events can cause us to put up self-defense mechanisms like sarcasm, rudeness, shyness, or judgmentalness. Often times we become so attached to these mechanisms that we believe they are a part of our personalities, but they are not.
God is calling you back to Himself in order to restore your soul. The real you. The compassionate and joyful you who has been hiding behind mechanisms that keep others at arms length.
This what a restored soul looks like, you love and accept yourself while loving and accepting others.
He Restores My Soul
