Joy and Strength (Christian life and music)

Feeding your heart and mind with God's truths is the best way I know to delight in Him. Lately, I have been wrestling with anxiety over certain issues surrounding my life.  Although my morning routine of spending at least an hour with the Lord in my quiet time has not changed, it's not long after my hour of bliss that worries, fears, and anxiety start to chase me down. I prayed and asked the Lord what I should read or listen to.  That's when I happened upon a Charles Spurgeon teaching on YouTube. I am a big Spurgeon lover and knew that he would give it to me straight.  And it was just what Dr. Jesus ordered! As I was listening to Charles Spurgeon's sermon, read by a very calming voice with a British accent, I began to feel God's Presence and peace in me.  I was letting go.  I was being enveloped by the Holy Spirit. This was not some super spiritual phenomena, but I believe that this is how the Christian life is to always be lived, ideally!  I want to live in this pl

So I read this translation of this verse that I haven't seen before and read into it something entirely new and fresh. Other versions are translated, "What can mere mortals to do me?" or "What can man do to me?" But when I read this version, "What can flesh  do to me?" a light bulb went off. Most people, including Christians, walk in the flesh, not the Spirit.  So if I experience their flesh coming after me, so to speak, I need to stop short and ask myself, what can their flesh do to me? Plenty!  That is, if I am not walking in the Spirit myself. Remember, no good thing dwells in the flesh.  So it is like only yucky stuff coming at you when others come against you for no real reason.   I don't think most Christians are sensitive enough as to whether or not they are walking in the Spirit or walking to gratify the flesh.  Oh they may want  to walk in the Spirit because they know that they are supposed to, but how many do you know that actually do? Ot