'Commit our spirit to God'

'We should fulfill our part with all faithfulness, and commit the rest to our merciful and faithful High Priest. And at the appropriate time He shall lead us into a complete spiritual experience. We need to follow the footsteps of our Lord. As He was dying, Jesus poured out His soul to death (Is. 53.12) but committed His spirit to God (Luke 23.46). We must do now what He did before. If we truly pour out the soul life and commit our spirit to God we too shall know the power of resurrection and shall enjoy a perfect spiritual way in the glory of resurrection. '

The Spiritual Man- Watchman Nee

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Isa 53:12  Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Luk 23:46  And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. 

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Truly we must let Christ live in us and in living in us we accept what He did for us- dying for us so we may live eternally.  We must listen to HIS words, the words HE speaks to us. When HE tells us to deny ourselves do we IGNORE Him? When HE tells us to take up our cross, do we IGNORE Him? Do we pretend we don't have to listen to those words, that it doesn't really matter what we do as long as we believe in Him?  Remember this--

Jas_2:19  Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

And this--

Act_16:31  And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

1Jn_5:13  These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

What about this--

Jas_2:20  But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Do you see? There is believing and there is believing.  I can believe a person is real, because I see them, know them, etc.  But I don't necessarily have to believe in that person. I don't have to believe in all that the person stands for, their morals, their ways.  We can believe in Jesus Christ, even believe He is the Savior, but if we don't believe in all His truths He gives us then we aren't truly believing in Him to the extent we need to.  We don't want to be like devils who believe, we want to really, truly believe.  When we believe in our Savior then we will listen to Him, not ignore His words because they don't fit in with the life style we wish to indulge in. 

Christ our Savior died for us, He emptied Himself of His divinity to become human and He allowed Himself to die, accepting the path He agreed to take in order to save all who would come to Him. He gave His spirit to God as all who did- do. The breath goes back to God who gave it. When Jesus was in the grave He was sleeping as all who die- sleep. The breath that gave Him life was gone, His spirit essence alive in Him in life was with God. The soul of who He was, was sleeping- the power to choose unable to choose in sleep.  When Jesus rose from the grave He was given back His breath- His life. He was given back His spirit. He was given back His soul. When He woke up from death's sleep He had it all back. He wouldn't have been given it all back without God giving it to Him.  We too need to give our life to God, to surrender, to allow Him to work in us. He gives us our breath and as long as we have our breath then we have our soul and spirit (unless medically incapacitated then the soul's ability to choose is gone).  We need to daily choose Christ, daily choose the cross, daily choose to deny ourselves, daily live as Christ lived - in love with the hope of being in eternity with Him. He came to preach eternity to us, we need to live with daily seeking eternity in Him, longing for that eternity, praying for that eternity, wanting all to possess eternity in Him.

Please Lord, help us give our lives over to You, and receive the Spirit that will give us all we need to be Yours, wholly Yours!

In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior now and forever!!!!!!!

AMEN!