To be near unto God - pagina 384

My

my

soul after thee, God. soul thirsteth for God, for the living God" (Psalm 42). In verse 4: "I remember these things and pour out soul in me." Again: "Why art thou cast soul, and why art thou disquieted down, O within me." The Scripture makes no distinction

so panteth

my

my

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 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

Then

there

into

it.

life;

and there

is

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

it

aside.

it,

but he can not shake

it

Death does not annihilate

off,

nor

it.

It

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 is

antithesis. of dust

made

In Paradise

and the In Psalm 139

spirit

the form which God breathes the unformed sub-

it is

which

it is into it. stance which, as a piece of embroidery,

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is

curi-

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