To be near unto God - pagina 387

than when again and again

it

throws distractive

discord into the harmony of the Psalm of life. And to break with sin, and to lose self again in worship and blessed fellowship becomes of itself the rising impulse of the heart. 71

"THY OVERSIGHT HATH PRESERVED

MY

SPIRIT." is that by which we live. It is at the same time our breath of life and our spiritual inner self. The spirit is what we are above and besides the body. It is that which has been breathed into the ''unformed lump" to make us man, to make us live as man, to make us a person among the children of men. "To yield up

The

spirit

within us

the spirit," as a rule, breathe out the breath hand the apostle says, things of a man, save in him (I Cor. 2:11), our conscious ego, our our inner personality.

Although

this

is nothing but to die, to of life. When on the other that no man knoweth the the spirit of man which is the word "spirit" indicates spiritual existence as man,

seems to be something entirely

Holy Writ the breath of life, the we yield up in dying is never separated from our spiritual existence. Both our life and our person are expressed by "spirit," and both

different, in spirit which

are called "our soul." When the Psalmist cried: "O Lord, deliver my soul," or rejoices: "Thou, Lord, hast delivered my soul from death," it refers in Psalm 116 to the saving of life, to deliverance from danger, and not to spiritual redemption. But our inner spiritual existence is also called our soul. "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, 879

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