Can it be?Romans 7:6 

6 But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

 

 

Why won’t I play the hand I am dealt?

Why do I justify cheating?

Did I embrace the letter

just to compromise?

I use my interpretation

to return the letter to the sender

and so to justify me

while drowning in the mire.

 

I need to embrace the Spirit

but I am misled by self

and maybe by most others

who claim to know the “Truth”.

The sad part of it all is,

that most are spiritually wanting

and me and myself and I

oft at times have no clue.

 

Where to find the Spirit

with a mind deprived?

Listening to some other minds

won’t really get me there.

Searching for the Truth

and hunger for the Righteousness

will bring the Spirit home to me

in Christ’s own atmosphere.

 

Can my spirit after being redeemed

become very decrepit?

Old and stale ... traditional

you know ... patterned by me.

Doctrines reaching to the mind

which only the world inherits.

Lifeless, polished ... never touched

enslaved by the rotten “me”.

 

 

Maybe my spirit is

untouchable by my flesh.

Really it is just an entity

far beyond mind’s control.

Let it be that God enjoys

togetherness in the Spirit,

with the “me” that’s really me

at peace without a jolt.

 

Jan Wienen