Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit

March 12

(Psalm 31:5 NIV) “Into your hands I commit my spirit; redeem me, O Lord, the God of truth.”

(Luke 23:46 NIV) “Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." When he had said this, he breathed his last.”

Yesterday, we heard David declare that his times were in God’s hands. God had been his refuge in the past and his present was in the hands of the Lord. Today we hear David commit his spirit to God. This is about the future. He entrusts his ultimate destiny to the ultimate Judge. He commits his eternal spirit into God’s hands. David probably had no idea that his words of faith would end up being the last words Jesus breathed on the cross before He died. King David and Jesus, the King of kings, both entrusted their spirits to God. We are all called to put our spirit into God’s hands; to trust Him with our eternity. Have you done that? Have you said to God, “Into your hands I commit my spirit”? Have you given your past, present, and future to the Creator of time? Have you trusted Him with your life and with your death? This is what it means to have complete faith in God. -- Friar Tuck’s Word of the Day