To be near unto God - pagina 388

My

my

soul after thee, God. soul for the living God" (Psalm 42). "I remember these things and pour out my soul in me." Again: "Why art thou cast down, O my soul, and why art thou disquieted within me." The Scripture makes no distinction

so panteth

thirsteth for In verse 4:

God,

between our life and our spirit. In God's word our life and our spiritual existence are one. In Paradise God forms man from the dust of the earth. But the material form is not man. He only comes into being when God breathes life into

it.

Then

there

is

life,

then there

is

human

no human life except as utterance of the life of a soul; and there is no life of a soul apart from an ego, a person, a spiritual life;

and there

is

Any man can being that hides in our heart. sully this spiritual existence in himself, can sin it away, corrupt

it,

but he can not shake

it off,

nor

Death does not annihilate it. It lay it aside. abides, it continues to exist, even with the lost in the place of perdition. Man's spirit is his real self. All the rest is but the house, the tabernacle, as the Apostle calls it. 'The real, essential man is the spirit that dwells The spirit in us is our ego, in this tabernacle. our person, including our disposition, character, consciousness, feeling, will powers, gifts and talents; in brief, everything that forms our inner existence, constituting a particular being, bearing a particular stamp, and expressing itself in a parIn Scripture it is always the ticular character. same antithesis. In Paradise it is the form which is made of dust and the spirit which God breathes In Psalm 139 it is the unformed subinto it. stance which, as a piece of embroidery, is curiS80

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