Psalm 66:9
King James Version
9 Which holdeth our soul in life,
and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
Oh, the tenderness of the FATHER's LOVE for us!
We have no idea how GOD loves, loved, and continues to love us.
Neither do many have an idea how completely dependent we are upon Him.
But tender are His mercies towards us.
He knows the fragility of our bones, our breath, and our bodies.
He knows the fragility of our souls, our minds, and our spirits.
He knows the weakness of our flesh.
And the many temptations that hound us.
And that last one, no thanks to His sworn enemy.
Let SPIRIT and Scripture reveal verses which prove GOD's perfect awareness of all these.
He is not insensitive to our many trials, and tribulations.
First, JESUS knew the weakness, and impermanence of our "flesh":
Mark 14:38
King James Version
38 Watch ye and pray,
lest ye enter into temptation.
The spirit truly is ready,
but the flesh is weak.
John 3:5-7
King James Version
5 Jesus answered,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh;
and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee,
Ye must be born again.
Second, so does the rest of Scripture.
From the Old Testament, to the New Testament:
Genesis 6:3
King James Version
3 And the Lord said,
My spirit shall not always strive with man,
for that he also is flesh:
yet his days shall be an hundred
and twenty years.
Job 12:9-10
King James Version
9 Who knoweth not in all these
that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?
10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing,
and the breath of all mankind.
Psalm 78:39-40
King James Version
39 For he remembered that they were but flesh;
a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness,
and grieve him in the desert!
Psalm 103:13-14
King James Version
13 Like as a father pitieth his children,
so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
14 For he knoweth our frame;
he remembereth that we are dust.
Psalm 103:15-16
King James Version
15 As for man, his days are as grass:
as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone;
and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Isaiah 31:1
King James Version
31 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help;
and stay on horses,
and trust in chariots, because they are many;
and in horsemen, because they are very strong;
but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel,
neither seek the Lord!
Isaiah 31:3
King James Version
3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;
and their horses flesh, and not spirit.
When the Lord shall stretch out his hand,
both he that helpeth shall fall,
and he that is holpen shall fall down,
and they all shall fail together.
Romans 6:19
King James Version
19 I speak after the manner of men
because of the infirmity of your flesh:
for as ye have yielded your members
servants to uncleanness
and to iniquity unto iniquity;
even so now yield your members
servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Romans 8:10-13
King James Version
10 And if Christ be in you,
the body is dead because of sin;
but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him
that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,
he that raised up Christ from the dead
shall also quicken your mortal bodies
by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors,
not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die:
but if ye through the Spirit do mortify
the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
1 Corinthians 15:49
King James Version
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy,
we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
1 Corinthians 15:50
King James Version
50 Now this I say, brethren,
that flesh and blood cannot inherit
the kingdom of God;
neither doth corruption inherit
incorruption.
1 Corinthians 15:51-53
King James Version
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery;
We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,
at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound,
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption,
and this mortal must put on immortality.
1 Corinthians 15:54
King James Version
54 So when this corruptible
shall have put on incorruption,
and this mortal shall have put on immortality,
then shall be brought to pass the saying
that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1 Corinthians 15:55-58
King James Version
55 O death, where is thy sting?
O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin;
and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God,
which giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren,
be ye stedfast, unmoveable,
always abounding in the work of the Lord,
forasmuch as ye know that your labour
is not in vain in the Lord.
Hebrews 9:10
King James Version
10 Which stood only in meats and drinks,
and divers washings, and carnal ordinances,
imposed on them until the time of reformation.
James 4:14
King James Version
14 Whereas ye know not
what shall be on the morrow.
For what is your life?
It is even a vapour,
that appeareth for a little time,
and then vanisheth away.
Scripture always presents PERFECT proof.
Our lives truly came from GOD.
Our breath, His.
Genesis 2:7
King James Version
7 And the Lord God formed man
of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living soul.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
King James Version
7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was:
and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
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