![]() ![]() Recognizing this, the Psalmist prays, “Remove from me the way of lying…” (the way of untruth or sham, or perhaps we could say hypocrisy or deceit). But because of our fallen nature we are bent to feed our soul with the “dust” which cannot satisfy. However, deep inside, the spirit man longs for something more, and we read in Ecclesiastes 3:11 from the Amplified Bible, “He also has planted eternity in men’s heart and mind…” We were created for eternity and with an inner cry for fellowship with God and His abundance. Being born into the natural world, it pursues the things of the flesh and the surrounding world as the Psalm says, it “clings to the dust”, the body and fleshly lusts. ![]() ![]() But there is also a deeper message here, the soul being the part of man that manifests the will, emotions, and feelings that dwells between the spirit and the body an order, expressed by Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:23, and it will align with that from which it receives its source. ![]() The Amplified Bible reads, “My earthly life cleaves to the dust” and in the physical world this could apply to all that are born into it passing away in death. “My soul clings to the dust” (Psalm 119:25) from the Hebrew definition we learn that the soul is a “ breathing creature”. ![]()
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