PrayerBits for Monday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Monday

Scripture lesson: Psalm 33:18-22 Our Soul?

Time to reflect: The word often translated as “soul” as in verse 20, is a lot bigger and important word that it appears to be in English. The soul is NOT some spiritual thing crammed into our bodies. Instead soul (“nephesh” in Hebrew) is everything about us that makes us who we are: personality, history, genes, relationships, mind, emotions, physical characteristics and so forth. Everything except the physical molecules (what Paul refers to as our earthly “tent” that can be taken down without affecting the person living in the tent). At the Resurrection, it is this that is resurrected. Not the molecules, but so much more than some “spiritual being.”

Moving Through The Day: Meditate on praying to God with our Nephesh – out total being, and not just our mind or our emotions.

But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him,
       on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,

  to deliver them from death
       and keep them alive in famine.

  We wait in hope for the LORD;
       he is our help and our shield.

 In him our hearts rejoice,
       for we trust in his holy name.

  May your unfailing love rest upon us, O LORD,
       even as we put our hope in you.