Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
The verse is a confession of trust that places the spirit into the Lord's hands because He has redeemed the speaker. On the cross at Calvary Jesus made it His dying cry to the Father to commend His spirit, spoken immediately after declaring His work finished. He yielded up His precious life with a loud, clear, trumpet-like voice that seemed to resound throughout creation, amid awful darkness and convulsions of nature after draining the mysterious cup of suffering to its dregs. At that moment the gloom was suddenly lifted from the cross while the people watched in silence, light encircled the cross and His face shone with glory like the sun, and then He bowed His head upon His breast and died.
At that moment the Father's glory and sustaining presence had left Him, faith and hope trembled, and God had removed the assurance of approbation and acceptance. He was deprived of clear assurance and bright hope, feeling apparently forsaken in darkness and despair without the hope of resurrection. He was denied clear bright rays of hope and confidence in the triumph He was very soon to experience, and He could not see through the portals of the tomb. In submission He dropped Himself into the Father's hands and relied by faith alone on the One it had ever been His joy to obey. He rested on the prior evidences that had hitherto strengthened Him that the Father had accepted His labors and was pleased with His work, and on His knowledge of the Father's justice, mercy, and great love. By that faith He was victorious and the sense of lost favor was withdrawn.
His death in that trust purchases salvation for sinners. The verse is also addressed to Jesus as Lord and Redeemer when facing condemnation and death, as Huss did with eyes lifted to heaven while his persecutors condemned him, entrusting his spirit to Him. So prayed, it directly answers the devoting of the soul to the devil by affirming that the redeemed soul belongs to Christ and not to Satan. It gives comfort when death seems near by placing oneself into God's hand with the assurance that suffering will soon be over. It also guides when facing a dreaded journey of duty attended with great weariness and fear, calling for going forward despite fear and leaving personal safety and strength in the Lord's hands.
The verse is a confession of trust that places the spirit into the Lord's hands because He has redeemed the speaker. On the cross at Calvary Jesus made it His dying cry to the Father to commend His spirit, spoken immediately after declaring His work finished. He yielded up His precious life with a loud, clear, trumpet-like voice that seemed to resound throughout creation, amid awful darkness and convulsions of nature after draining the mysterious cup of suffering to its dregs. At that moment the gloom was suddenly lifted from the cross while the people watched in silence, light encircled the cross and His face shone with glory like the sun, and then He bowed His head upon His breast and died.
At that moment the Father's glory and sustaining presence had left Him, faith and hope trembled, and God had removed the assurance of approbation and acceptance. He was deprived of clear assurance and bright hope, feeling apparently forsaken in darkness and despair without the hope of resurrection. He was denied clear bright rays of hope and confidence in the triumph He was very soon to experience, and He could not see through the portals of the tomb. In submission He dropped Himself into the Father's hands and relied by faith alone on the One it had ever been His joy to obey. He rested on the prior evidences that had hitherto strengthened Him that the Father had accepted His labors and was pleased with His work, and on His knowledge of the Father's justice, mercy, and great love. By that faith He was victorious and the sense of lost favor was withdrawn.
His death in that trust purchases salvation for sinners. The verse is also addressed to Jesus as Lord and Redeemer when facing condemnation and death, as Huss did with eyes lifted to heaven while his persecutors condemned him, entrusting his spirit to Him. So prayed, it directly answers the devoting of the soul to the devil by affirming that the redeemed soul belongs to Christ and not to Satan. It gives comfort when death seems near by placing oneself into God's hand with the assurance that suffering will soon be over. It also guides when facing a dreaded journey of duty attended with great weariness and fear, calling for going forward despite fear and leaving personal safety and strength in the Lord's hands.