Breath

I have been in the delivery room to see a baby take its first breathe.  I have watched a tiny body of flesh transform before my eyes as breathe fills its tiny lungs, eyes strainIng to see in the new light of the outside world.

Breathing.





“Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” (Genesis 2:7 NASB)

In the beginning, God formed a body. It came to life when He breathed into it.

Sin brings death to the life He gave in the beginning. “... from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die." (Genesis 2:17 NASB) 

Life became contaminated with sin.  Death became a reality.  

To remedy that awful truth, new life must be breathed. We simply cannot NOT sin.  “...all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23 NASB)



The very breathe of God made humans different from every other living, breathing creature.   It was so on the day of Creation, and it is so on the day of salvation.

 The body of flesh will die, but the life held within it is eternal life.  That new life is brought about by the Holy Spirit of God.  Again, God Himself must breathe that life.  We cannot will it for ourselves.  We can’t un-do the damage that came about in The Garden.  Without the Holy Spirit of God breathed into us, we suffer an eternal death.


There are times when it is a struggle.  Like a baby, I sometimes gasp for breathe. I strain to see, squint at what is hard to look at.  My faith muscles sometimes grow weak and weary, but they are stronger than the day of my spiritual birth.  

 Praise God, He has provided His very own breathe, life giving, and life sustaining.   My body of flesh is frail and weak.  His power is available and always present, regardless of what my circumstances may be.

”In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise.” (Ephesians 1:13 NASB)

Hallelujah.