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.

 

Why won’t I play the hand I’m dealt? Why justify cheating?

Did I embrace the "Letter" so I'm able to compromise?

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

Am I justified to myself and choosing to drown in the mire?

 

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

I am misled by myself and by 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 self most of the time have no clue

 

Where to find the Spirit with a depraved mind?

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 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.

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 me, at peace without a jolt

 

Jan Wienen