The Human Spirit

1. Man is a being of three parts,
   The body, soul, and spirit too,
   The eternal purpose to fulfill
   With God's inheritance in view.
2. The body is the outward part
   That man a world-sense may possess;
   Thus he may touch the outward things
   And bodily himself express.
3. The soul within—the inward part—
   Is but the very self of man;
   The sense of self it gives to him
   To touch the psychic world of man.
4. The spirit is the inmost part
   With which the Lord he may receive;
   The sense of God it gives to man
   That he the spirit-world perceive.
5. Within the soul of man there are
   The mind, emotion, and the will;
   These are the functions for the man
   His human nature to fulfill.
6. Within the spirit of the man
   Are found the conscience, fellowship,
   And intuition, which thereby
   The man to worship God equip.
7. The man must exercise his soul
   To choose that God he may possess,
   And by his spirit God partake,
   And thru his body God express.
8. Man's spirit has to be reborn
   With life divine to him conveyed;
   His soul must be transformed by God,
   His body like Christ's body made.
9. 'Tis by these steps of work divine
   In each of man's three separate parts
   That man is mingled with the Lord
   And His expression full imparts.

(Hymns, #742)