What a way to go. What a way to pray as you go. “Father into your hands I commit my spirit.” The prayer is taken from Psalm 31:5. Some scholars believe that “into your hands I commit my spirit” was the first prayer every Jewish mother taught her child to pray before going to sleep at night. When Jesus prayed this prayer he added “Father” to it. Jesus died, the way child falls to sleep in his Father’s arms.
Right up to the end of his life, Jesus drew on the Scriptures to shape his prayers. Charles Spurgeon remarked with admiration how even the incarnate Son of God, the grand original thinker, prayed from the Scriptures.
How instructive is this great truth that the incarnate Word lived on the Inspired Word! It was food to him, as it is to us; and….if Christ thus lived upon the Word of God, should not you and I do the same? As I have seen a silkworm eat into the leaf and consume it, so ought we do the Word of the Lord – not crawl over its surface, but eat right into it until we have taken it into our inmost parts.
If this is the way Jesus prayed then how much more should we?
My Prayer: Lord Jesus, teach me to pray as you taught your disciples, and as you taught us on the cross. Let your word find a home in m heart, mind and mouth. Teach me to pray as you did, from and through the Holy Scripture.
Luke 23:46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit”. When he had said this, he breathed his last.
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