Selwyn continues to consider how ‘breath’ is figurative of the Holy Spirit.
I like the verse fron Job 33:4; ‘The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.‘ It brings home to me that my existence is due to the work of God, my parents were just interested bystanders; well, not exactly, but you know what I mean! In addition, we have two aspects of life in this verse. One, is the creation of life and the second, is the continuation of life – for those who ‘know’ Jesus – this life is eternal. In a very real sense we can breath heaven’s air while on our journey here on earth.
What did you think of Selwyn’s conclusion? “Is it not one of the greatest needs of the Church at this hour to be breathed upon by the breath of God? But of course God is continually breathing on us; the real trouble is that we are not receptive to God’s breath. Though He is breathing out, we are not breathing in. We simply must come to grips with the fact that unless we inhale what the Almighty exhales than our spiritual lungs will just not function.”
For me, our spiritual lungs need to function for us to be able to make Jesus ‘known’ to those who are lost; and, are far from Him. I think this is the main reason why the proportion of active Christians in our society is dropping. We are happy meeting together behind the ‘closed doors’ of our respective Christian communities – but we rarely venture out to proclaim the good news to a hostile world – do you agree?
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Breathe in – breathe out
Selwyn continues to consider how ‘breath’ is figurative of the Holy Spirit.
I like the verse fron Job 33:4; ‘The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.‘ It brings home to me that my existence is due to the work of God, my parents were just interested bystanders; well, not exactly, but you know what I mean! In addition, we have two aspects of life in this verse. One, is the creation of life and the second, is the continuation of life – for those who ‘know’ Jesus – this life is eternal. In a very real sense we can breath heaven’s air while on our journey here on earth.
What did you think of Selwyn’s conclusion? “Is it not one of the greatest needs of the Church at this hour to be breathed upon by the breath of God? But of course God is continually breathing on us; the real trouble is that we are not receptive to God’s breath. Though He is breathing out, we are not breathing in. We simply must come to grips with the fact that unless we inhale what the Almighty exhales than our spiritual lungs will just not function.”
For me, our spiritual lungs need to function for us to be able to make Jesus ‘known’ to those who are lost; and, are far from Him. I think this is the main reason why the proportion of active Christians in our society is dropping. We are happy meeting together behind the ‘closed doors’ of our respective Christian communities – but we rarely venture out to proclaim the good news to a hostile world – do you agree?
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