If you’ve ever been to the doctor, at some point he will probably have listened to your chest, your heart, your lungs and said ,”Breathe in…now breathe out” and as you take deep breaths he knows how you are.
When God created the first man in the garden of Eden He breathed into Adam’s nostrils the breath of life and Adam became a living, speaking being, his spirit was alive to God. We know Adam then blew it and even though he had experienced God walking with him in the garden, he chose to rebel, and he lost the presence of God, his spirit was no longer alive to God.
The Good News is that Jesus is the second Adam and He paid the price for us to be allowed once again to walk in the presence of God and be alive to Him. What a privilege that is.🙂 It’s wonderful to know, when we ask God to come into our lives and fill us with His Spirit, He comes and dwells inside us and declares He will never abandon us or leave us without support.
We could look at this way - when we breathe, we’re breathing God in and breathing God out because we are the temple of the Holy Spirit - He lives and breathes in us. Acts 17:28 (NLT) for in him we live and move and have our being… Col 1:27 ..Christ lives in you…
We know that when we have a need we don’t have to chant prayers, or do penance or beg God to do anything. All we have to do is remember He is inside us and ask Him for His strength to flow from where He is, inside us, for His wisdom and help, His provision, His protection, and His Spirit will minister to us because He lives in us all the time, wherever we are.
Be encouraged, if you’ve asked Jesus into your life you are never alone, never without His support but always surrounded by His favour, His goodness and mercy are chasing you down, and He is living and breathing inside you right now by His Spirit. What a thought!🙂
Acts 17:25 (NLT) …He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need.
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