To be near unto God - pagina 383

than when again and again it throws distractive discord into the harmonj' of the Psalm of hfe. 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 The spirit is what we are spiritual inner self. above and besides the body. It is that whieh 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

nothing but to

is

die,

to

When on the other that no man knoweth the the spirit of man which is

of

life.

the

word

"spirit" indicates

spiritual^ existence as

man,

seems to be something entirely

Holy Writ the breath of life, the spirit which we yield up in d3'ing is never separated from our spiritual existence. Both our life and our person are expressed by "spirit," and both different,

in

are called "our soul." When the Psalmist cried: "0 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, 379

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