Commit Your Spirit!

Psalm 31

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, April 18.

At the time of His death on the cross, Jesus quoted from Psalm 31:5, “Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have ransomed me, O Lord, God of truth.” We find this in the Gospel of Luke 23:46, “And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, ‘Father, into Your hands, I commit my spirit.’ Having said this, He breathed His last.”

The Bible teaches that our bodies are only a temporary dwelling place, so while our bodies are committed to their resting place in the ground, our spirits are committed to God. Paul explained this in 2 Corinthians 5:4-8:

For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life. Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge. Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord – for we walk by faith, not by sight – we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

With your spirit in the hand of God through faith in Jesus Christ, you will be immediately ushered into the presence of the Lord upon taking your last breath in this body. Jesus explained in John 11:25-26, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?” Jesus Christ is the “first fruits” of all who will be raised (1 Corinthians 15:20-26; Colossians 1:18).

Seize the moment and pray Psalm 31, meditating upon the hope you have through the resurrection of Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:50-58). He is risen!

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