The goal of loving with our hearts, minds, and strength is to drill down and touch the eternal place where our souls rest in God, rather than remaining on the surface of our lives through emotivism, intellectualism, or frenetic activity. As we pierce the surface of life to encounter and embrace our soul, our true self in God, our whole person becomes the best sort of apocalyptic event, the place where resurrection manifests. We cannot experience resurrection life if we judge our hearts, mind, and strength by conventional means in the world outside ourselves. Integration only happens at the soul-level, as we recognize we are not even the culmination of our thoughts, feelings, or actions; but what we have been taught makes us “us” is united by something deeper than them all.
