207: It Starts With God – Become Good Soil Foundations Series (Part 2)

207: It Starts With God – Become Good Soil Foundations Series (Part 2)

From Become Good Soil by Morgan Snyder

February 24, 2026 · 1h 2m

About this episode

In this episode, Morgan Snyder explores the theme of how our worth is often bartered away and invites listeners to entrust themselves fully to God.

“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us…” —St. John Henri Nouwen offers these soulful questions: “In what quiet ways have you bartered the worth of your soul to other grade-givers—some clamoring voices in the world around you, other critical voices firmly within your own being? By what small, repeated surrenders have you allowed yourself to become the very thing the world applauds, and the one thing you did not want to find yourself becoming?” In reflecting on these questions, we are keenly aware of the reality that we have often “bartered the worth of our soul” and been painfully malformed through “small repeated surrenders.” Yet as we take stock of our precious yet infected souls, we experience Jesus’s pursuit afresh. As the generous host of all creation, as our creator and king, He invites us to once again entrust ourselves fully to Him—everything we are and everything we are not yet—and receive the nourishment, embrace, and affection we so desperately need and is His joy to extend. In this second episode of our Become Good Soil Foundations Series, join us as we explore the wondrous reality whispered through the text of scripture, the text of nature, and the…

People in this episode

Host: Morgan Snyder

Topics covered

  • love
  • soul
  • identity
  • faith
  • spirituality
  • God

Keywords

  • soul
  • faith
  • identity
  • God
  • spirituality
  • love
  • rest
  • receptivity

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