Union Vs Division pt 1: Why we feel powerless

“But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.” — 1 Corinthians 6:17 

The truth of the gospel is union. Yet the lived experience of many believers is division.

Even though Scripture declares that we are in Chris

t, we often live fragmented—divided within ourselves and divided from one another. We see it everywhere: us vs. them, sacred vs. secular, spiritual vs. physical. And division always leads to powerlessness.

Division isn’t just social or political. It’s internal.

As a health and life coach, the Lord has begun redirecting how I walk with clients seeking healing, weight loss, and physical transformation. He’s shown me that many physical and mental health struggles are not merely biological or behavioral—but rooted in internal division. When the soul is fractured and the spirit disconnected from lived experience, the body bears the weight.

We are multidimensional beings—body, soul, and spirit. When we come to Christ, our spirits are made alive. Yet many of us stop there. We live as if the spiritual life exists “up here” while our bodies and minds remain “down here,” untouched, unmanaged, and misunderstood.

So we wonder: Why am I still sick? Why am I still stuck? Why do I feel powerless?

We normalize what Jesus never called normal.

Jesus is the standard. He is what wholeness looks like.

Jesus lived in complete internal union—fully submitted to the Father, fully aligned with the Spirit, fully present in His body. There was no split between His spirituality and His physicality. No compartmentalization. No contradiction.

We, however, have learned to live divided.

Sometimes we operate spiritually—praying, believing, worshiping. But most of the time, we operate from the body and the wounded soul. We treat the spiritual life as separate, instead of integrated. The result is instability, confusion, and exhaustion.

James 1:8 describes the divided person as “double-minded”—literally of two minds—unstable in all their ways. Division weakens us.

And one of the most destructive contributors to this division is what Scripture calls the spirit of religion, which always partners with the spirit of rejection. Together they whisper lies that fracture us from within:

• You’re never good enough

• You must perform to be accepted

• Your body is evil

• God tolerates you, but doesn’t delight in you

  
  

When we believe these lies, we turn against ourselves. We hate our bodies. We suppress emotions. We live from shame. And the body—faithful witness that it is—manifests what the soul has buried.

This is not the life Jesus came to give.

Union is not a future hope. It is a present reality we are learning to live into.