The movie "Soul" forces us to ask serious life-altering questions.

Question 1:

Do you believe that you existed before you were conceived?

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

-Psalm 139:13-14

"My inmost being” = Hebrew “kilyah”, literally the kidneys or inmost parts — meaning, figuratively, the seat of emotions, the soul, the central location of the passions.

My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

-Psalm 139:13-16

For in him we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'

-Acts 17:28

Question 2:

Do you believe in the brevity of life?

What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

-James 4:14

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

-Proverbs 27:1

Show me, Lord, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is.

-Psalm 39:4

Question 3:

Do you believe there is a right way and a wrong way to live?

Is there a way to live that leads to a joy-filled satisfying life?

There is nothing wrong with passion until it ruins your life.

When your passions bring destruction, they seldom destroy only one life.

When a gift, passion, or spark remains just that—something that lights a fire in us—rather than a carrier of all our hopes and dreams—we find joy again.

Your life does not have to be your best life now to be a beautiful life worth living.

Life is what happens to you while you are trying to live.

If you confuse Passion with Purpose you will end up asking your Passion to give you something it is incapable of giving.

Only when your ultimate passion is the pursuit of God, will you relate appropriately to your lesser loves.

If there is a Great Before and a Great Beyond, then there must be a Great Father who has ordained it all.

What then is the purpose of my life?

To glorify God!

How do we do that?

No! Those are the by-products of a life that glorifies God.

But this is not the primary way you glorify God.

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.”

The ultimate purpose of your life is to find your greatest satisfaction in reconnecting with the one who made you—your Spiritual Father!

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

-Jeremiah 29:13