"Only God!" -2

"All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto Thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?" (Psalms 35:10) We have previously looked at this word "bones" in the last Psalm, and remembering back, you might recall how it represents firmness or strength; it also represents substance, as in self and the substance of what we are. All of our life comes from God; every single breath we take, and every single beat of our heart is given to our lives by the Creator of our eternal soul. This tent that we move around in is far more fragile then we realize; especially when placed up against our souls that live forever, they are very temporal and weak. And yet, this very flesh, that which is the weaker than our soul, is also the thing that will have the strength enough to cause our soul to be condemned to an eternity of hell. Looking at that in the context of the previous verse, we can see another "cause" for our soul to rejoice, as it says, "And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in His salvation." Without God's great mercy this soul is toast; it stands no chance of making it against the flesh; the flesh that in this world is stronger, only because the earth is what feeds it and keeps it going; therefore, the flesh is what gets to call the shots, at least most of the time. This is why it is so vitally important that we are filled with the Holy Spirit, which is the helper of our souls; because without the help of God's Spirit, we are not going to defeat the will of the flesh. Having said that, we must also realize that God knows the state of our condition; He knows how we battle against those things that we do not want to do, and how we want to do the things we do not do; which is why the word "deliverest" is being used in the verse above, because it means to be snatched away, or rescued: which to us, in our weakness, it means to be delivered from sin and from guilt... "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love." (Galatians 5:1-6)