Psalm 32:4
4 For day [yowmam] and night [layil] thy hand [yad] was heavy [kabad] upon me: my moisture [lashad] is turned [haphak] into the drought [charabown] of summer [qayits]. Selah [celah]. KJV-Interlinear
4 For
day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was drained away as with
the fever heat of summer. NASB
Sin is any thought,
action, or way of behaving, that goes against, rejects, ignores, indifference
toward, or refuses, truth and the principles of truth. This includes not doing
the things that are expected.
God has put in place,
principles that allow a person to function in this world, that is saturated
with sin or anti-truth practices.
For the world at large,
there are the divine establishment principles such as volition, freedom, free
enterprise, nationalism, marriage, family, authority and so forth. These principles offset the evil policies of
jungle law, slavery, socialism, alternative lifestyles, and so forth.
For every principle of truth,
Satan has set up his own, opposite principle, designed to counter truth and
destroy society.
And in the personal realm,
the offset of the sin nature is the spiritual realm. The barrier dividing the
two, is confession.
God set up for the
individual, an environment for the soul.
When you are in fellowship, then you live within that good
environment. When you are outside of
that environment and in the sin nature realm, then you are living within the
pressure cooker of life.
The weight of life is
burdensome. The pressures of life are
ever present.
Living under the sin
nature, the descriptions given here, the moisture turned to drought, the hand
heavy upon, both describe the burdens, the exasperations, the anxieties, and
fears of life, for which there is no answer, no help, no future, no hope.
For the world has nothing
to offer except more burden upon more burden.
Only Bible doctrine,
offers hope and a light at the end of the tunnel. The spiritual life and the growth that
accompanies it, allow you to live within the evils of this world.
Being human and the
nature of our physical self, means that we have to live within this devils
world and we have to experience the many troubles that are always there, but
the spiritual life gives us the resources to be able to handle and deal with
those troubles, no matter what they are.
Not having a spiritual
life, not pursuing it, means you are simply placing more burdens on
yourself. Your decision, your fault.
Having a functional spiritual
life, does not eliminate the burdens of life, but you will be better able to
sail through them with greater ease and poise.
