Like oxygen to the soul, craving, needing, so deeply needing the Spirit to maneuver inside us. Oxygen is a obligatory ingredient to life; with out it, we can’t survive. This identical idea applies to our soul, with out the Spirit of God dwelling inside us, we crumble, desperately trying to find a life-giving resolution.
Our bones change into dry, working right here and there. Stretching ourselves past our means. Stress ranges start to rise. We really feel it, the aching, the ache, the eager for one thing extra. Each day pressures start to bear down on us leaving us suffocated, drowning in expectations-our personal and the world. These pressures at instances create a dull physique consisting of a coronary heart that’s barely beating on the within. Overwhelmed, our feelings start to stream down our faces. With tear-streamed cheeks, we change into breathless, choking on what this life throws at us. Finally, leaving us misplaced and confused. What can probably assist us lonely beings battle again the load of this world? It’s our Jesus-the One Who has already overcome this world.
Our Jesus shouldn’t be a God of confusion. This world is. Our Jesus shouldn’t be one to depart us alone within the wilderness. The world will and it does. Our Jesus provides peace, a peaceful, His stunning breath of life that’s given so freely and lovingly. Job 33:4 (ESV) says, “The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty provides me life.” Within the guide of Job, Job had skilled an immense quantity of loss, grief, and defeat. He was drowning in what life had taken from him, what life had tossed in his course. Regardless of all of this, he continues to rely upon God’s provisions. Our God longs to provide us a life that’s so richly steeped in Him, overflowing with an abundance of grace and mercy.
Ezekiel 37:5 (ESV) says, Thus says the Lord God to those bones: Behold, I’ll trigger breath to enter you, and also you shall stay.” Our highly effective God is ready to carry lifeless bones to life! He needs us to stay! He needs us to stay a life in an intimate relationship with Him! We are going to stay with His breath, with His Spirit dwelling inside us. The Spirit that so sweetly reminds us to cease, decelerate, and breathe with an intention to stay for Him. The Spirit that so sweetly reminds us to meditate on the loving Reality He’s given to all of us. Once we maintain on to those reminders, God’s consolation will slowly soften over us.
The air inside our lungs comes from our Divine Creator. Regardless of the pressures, stresses, expectations we face on this world, we’ve a grounding, peace-providing God whose breath of life flows via us-like oxygen to the soul.