1 Thessalonians 5:23 New English Translation

Conclusion

23 Now may the God of peace himself make you completely holy and may your spirit and soul and body be kept entirely blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The soul is the “will”

Through sympathy or comfort, soul life will not be lost

The spirit life finds in God all-sufficiency for our needs

In hunger for righteousness and the pleasing of God’s Will 

Our own desires will be denied as on Christ Himself we feed

What emerges from independence from God, we must reject

Even if it appears acceptable it will just be a compromise

We have to break with our longings except for God Himself

And just to follow Him and pursue His Will and His longings

How will our desire move aside unless it's burned through suffering?

Emotionally we need to be emptied and completely poured out

Not by choice or circumstance but freely through our giving

All to God without holding back our soul, our mind, our mouth

Jan Wienen