Breath...

Breath… Ever feel like you can’t breathe? Feel like you are suffocating? ….like the air you breathe in just isn’t enough somehow, and you find yourself sighing over and over?

I often find myself doing that.

I just don’t always breathe right. Don’t breathe deeply enough. Breathe in the wrong stuff…

When God formed the first human, Scripture says “He breathed the breath of life into him. And the man became a living person.”(Gen.2:7)

“The heavens were made when the LORD commanded it to happen. All of the stars were created by the breath of his mouth.”(Ps. 33:6)

God created life and every facet of our reality.
God sustains life and every facet of our reality.

Don’t be fooled. You don’t do it.

Government doesn’t do it.

Education doesn’t do it.

A wealthy economy doesn’t do it.

Medicine doesn’t do it.

Not even religion does it.

He does.

“When You turn Your face away from them, they are terrified. When You take away their breath, they die and turn back into dust.”(Ps. 104:29)

A look into history will show that when the blessings begin to be withdrawn, when things get tough and the tough can’t seem to bring about restored blessing….people begin to pant and search for God, begging for help.

Time and time again, He has brought restoration and healing. How I praise Him for His mercy, and the perfect love He offers. My human nature is incapable of that perfect love, I am slow to extend love to those I deem undeserving.



Thank You Lord God that you do not have a heart like mine. And thank You Father that you have said, “I will not find fault with my people forever. I will not always be angry with them. If I were, I would cause their spirits to grow weak. The very breath of life would go out of the people I created.”(Isa. 57:16)



The breath of life within me is more than the oxygen my lungs process for maintaining this flesh. The real breath within me is what He breaths out.

Some days, I choose not to breath it in.

Some days I choose to ignore the breathe He provides, and choose to choke and spew on whatever is available. And be assured, the enemy of my soul provides alternatives to the breath of life from God.

Today, I choose life.
Today, I choose to breath in, what He breaths out.

“ God has breathed life into all of Scripture. It is useful for teaching me what is true. It is useful for correcting my mistakes. It is useful for making my life whole again. It is useful for training me to do what is right. By using Scripture, I can be completely prepared to do every good thing”(2 Tim. 3:16-17 personalized by me)

Call me a Bible banger. Call me a religious finatic. Call me a Jesus freak.

Call me whatever you like.

He calls me friend. (John 15:15)

I breath oxygen and have a heartbeat and pulse because He created human life, a life so very different from plant and animal life, because of His breath.

I breath the breath of God as I inhale what He has said, what He has done, and as I “Receive The Holy Spirit… that He breaths on me …” (John 20:22 personalized by me)

Don't be satisfied with anything else than the life made available and sustained by the very breath of God.