Can it be? Romans 7:6 “so now that we should live in the newness

of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter”

 

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 myself

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 spiritual dead

and me and my and I

at times have no clue.

 

Where to find the Spirit

with my mind deprived?

Listening to some other minds

won’t really get me there.

Searching for the Truth

and hunger for the Righteous

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 the 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