Can it be?

Romans 7:6    New English Translation

6 But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

Can it be?

Why don’t I play the hand I’m dealt, why do I justify cheating?

Did I embrace the "Letter" so I can compromise?

Do I use my interpretation and return the "Letter" to the sender?

Justified to self and so drowning in the mire?

I need to embrace the Spirit or really tolerate the Spirit to embrace me

I am so misled by self and many others, who claim to know the truth

So sad to be part of it all as most are spiritually dead

And me, and I, and myself most of the time have no clue

Where to find the Spirit with a mind that is deprived?

Listening to some other minds surely won’t get me there

Searching for the truth and a hunger for righteousness

Will bring the Spirit home to me in Christ’s own atmosphere

Can my spirit after being redeemed become very decrepit?

Old and stale, traditional you know patterned by me

Doctrines that reach the mind that only the world inherits

Lifeless and polished, never touched, enslaved by the rotten me

Maybe "my" Spirit is untouchable by my flesh

Really it is an entity far beyond the mind’s control

Let it be, that God enjoys togetherness in the Spirit

With the “me”, that’s really me, at peace without a jolt

Jan Wienen