AC 9776 - our natural person was created to be of service

AC 9776
Just as the world ought to serve heaven,
so a person's external or natural ought to serve his internal or spiritual.
Moreover, the natural was created for service;
for it does not live from itself,
thus can do nothing from itself;
but from the internal or spiritual,
that is, through this from the Lord.
From this it is also evident that a person's external or natural is nothing
unless it is of service to the internal or spiritual,
and that it becomes something in proportion as it is of service.
To be of service is to obey,
and the natural obeys
when it does not take for itself from the understanding
reasons which favor the evils of the loves of self and of the world;
but when it complies with the dictates of reason
and the doctrine of the church,
which declare that good and truth ought to be done,
not for the sake of self and the world as ends,
but for the sake of good and truth itself.
In this manner the Lord does these through a person's heaven,
that is, through his internal;
for all good and truth are from the Lord,
insomuch that good and truth with a person are the Lord Himself.