Psalm 37:5-6 English Standard Version

Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.

Again I returned to study His Word to come up with supporting scripture to explain my words “In the Spirit”. Once again His Word is more elegant and meaningful than mine.

Decades ago when I was studying His Word afresh after years of neglect, a Word in due season came to me via my church elder. “Let God and let God.” To some who are not thoroughly versed in scripture that might sound cryptic. Rather than puzzle over the comment, I let it sink in.

This connects to my initial study in finding the first two words of Psalm 46:10 “Be still”. The Hebrew word for “be still” (raphah) literally translates to “sink,” “relax,” or “let go.” i.e. let go and allow the Word to sink in.

Psalm 37:5-6 is a better Word than “In the Spirit”. How can I, a flawed human, express what the Lord has shown me better than His Word?

I will end this with the final words of Paul before he wrote the love chapter, “And I will show you a still more excellent way.”

His Way is always better than our way.

Philippians 3:13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

This is not exactly what happened but is as close as I can get to use scripture to explain myself.

A few days ago I wrote “In The Spirit” and the thought came to me to explain why I ended that article with an implication that I cannot love others without being “In the Spirit”.

This morning I woke up and forgot that intention. I went with a message of being washed by the Word. I was in the present and had forgotten the past.

The older I get the more and more I find myself being forgetful. It is not a fault, it is the human condition.

Ecclesiastes 12:11-12 English Standard Version

¹¹ The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd. ¹² My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

I am no Solomon but I do get to read and learn wisdom even with my failing memory.

Once again I find myself failing to write that message about “In the Spirit” because the Lord has a better message.