I am spent

Psalm 39:10

"Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand." This might be translated, "Stop beating me; the wrath of your hand has completely crushed me."

How does this verse square, or factor, in the conscious of the American Church today. In Psalm 39 David acknowledges that God has wasted him. The pain, the emotion, the truth...such a verse heals the wounded soul. At the end of the day David could confess that God caused his pain. David foreshadowed the sufferings of Christ. Christ was spent, the Father spent his wrath upon the son. The son, being in the form of God, very God of very God, reduced himself. He took on the form of a servant, and equipped himself to the sacrifice to atone for the sins of the elect.

Narcissus killed himself...

Questions and issues about identity go beyond the limits of psychology. Pray that the Holy Spirit will move our eyes to Christ. If not, we will end up like Narcissus. He died while looking obsessively into his own reflection, for he loved to preoccupy himself with himself.