“My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.”
The Finish
This closes the second movement of this book with a striking, honest admission held alongside genuine confidence, my flesh and my heart faileth, this failing named directly, and yet, in the same breath, but God is the strength of my heart, worth holding as this whole movement’s own actual, culminating pattern.
Notice my portion for ever, worth holding as the actual answer this whole second movement’s honest weariness has been building toward, not denial that flesh and heart genuinely fail, but this described portion, for ever, extending genuinely beyond whatever failing this present, honest life actually, eventually produces.
This closes the loop this whole second movement has traced. Honest exhaustion voiced, evil days named without denial, life’s genuine brevity acknowledged, an eternal house held alongside earthly dissolution, complicated feelings about mortality honored, frailty deliberately known, wisdom pursued through numbering days, vanity honestly confronted, brief beauty named.
As this movement closes, receive this verse’s own combined honesty and confidence as your own. My flesh and my heart faileth, genuinely, honestly true, and yet, God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever, this whole book’s third and final movement now ready to explore what this eternal portion actually, fully means.
Finish Well
- Hold today both halves of this verse together, honest failing and genuine, eternal confidence.
- Consider what my portion for ever practically means for how you approach today’s own honest weariness.
- Carry this whole second movement’s honest exploration forward into this week’s exploration of the crown.
Prayer
Lord, my flesh and my heart faileth, but you are the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. Let this combined honesty and confidence carry me forward. Amen.
Carry this today
Flesh and heart genuinely fail. God remains the strength of the heart, the eternal portion.