My boy has had a great summer and has fully awakend to his God apart from his parents.
This was a blessing to me may it bless all others who read it.
I was listening to my stereo on the way home one night and the album Comatose by Skillet was playing. One song in particular had these lyrics that caught my attention: “ …[God] your presence fills my lungs with oxygen…”. This visual caused me to analyze this thought.
First, I thought of the concept of oxygen. This chemical element is the source of life, as we know it, without it life would cease to exist. The process of breathing is known as the inhalation of oxygen, and the exhalation of carbon dioxide and other waste products in the body. Oxygen is passed from the lungs into our blood cells and replaces any waste in the body. This process of exchange sparked a thought of one of the most fundamental principals of physics, which states that no two things or objects can occupy the same space. So as oxygen enters the body, carbon dioxide has no choice but to leave the body.
After considering this biological process, I took a step further and asked, “ How would this apply to our spiritual lives?” Since we as humans are created with such complexity that we are more than mere flesh and blood but spirit and soul as well. So the equivalent of oxygen in the physical world would have to be God’s presence in the spiritual realm. Ethos is the Greek word meaning essence, so God is the essence or ethos of life. So if God was oxygen and waste would be hate, malice, jealousy, sin, bitterness, etc,,, So if we spiritually breathed in God’s presence and keeping with the physics principal of no two things occupy the same space, then there is no place for hate, malice, bitterness, jealousy in our lives, What if as involuntarily as breathing, we would, in a spiritual sense, allow God to replenish our spirits and expel the waste as easily as exhaling. But instead, we spiritually hold our breath and allow everything that harms us to slowly suffocate us. Why not stop holding our breathing and allow God to consume us from the inside out.
The most effective way to establish dramatic change is from the inside out. Think of how God created Adam. From the dust, the body of Adam was created into an empty vessel. And what did God do…He BREATHED life into Adam. From the moment of creation, God intended us to be occupied by the spirit and His presence. Life as we know it is a constant struggle between feeding our spirit and allowing our flesh to consume us. As previously stated, the two cannot coexist in the same vessel. We try on our own to fight our flesh but it is in vain. It’s the equivalent of holding our breath and saying we are breathing as normal. Only God’s presence can restore life to our spirits in order fend off our flesh.
So this is my prayer…that I would no longer justify my circumstances as this is the best that I can do. This is completely ridiculous, I am selling God short. Paul prays in Ephesians 3:20: …Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think…Why not simply relinquish our sickened and suffocating state and just allow God to do His work in us unhindered by our own discomfort. I for one am going to allow God to do His thing and start breathing easy for a while.
First, I thought of the concept of oxygen. This chemical element is the source of life, as we know it, without it life would cease to exist. The process of breathing is known as the inhalation of oxygen, and the exhalation of carbon dioxide and other waste products in the body. Oxygen is passed from the lungs into our blood cells and replaces any waste in the body. This process of exchange sparked a thought of one of the most fundamental principals of physics, which states that no two things or objects can occupy the same space. So as oxygen enters the body, carbon dioxide has no choice but to leave the body.
After considering this biological process, I took a step further and asked, “ How would this apply to our spiritual lives?” Since we as humans are created with such complexity that we are more than mere flesh and blood but spirit and soul as well. So the equivalent of oxygen in the physical world would have to be God’s presence in the spiritual realm. Ethos is the Greek word meaning essence, so God is the essence or ethos of life. So if God was oxygen and waste would be hate, malice, jealousy, sin, bitterness, etc,,, So if we spiritually breathed in God’s presence and keeping with the physics principal of no two things occupy the same space, then there is no place for hate, malice, bitterness, jealousy in our lives, What if as involuntarily as breathing, we would, in a spiritual sense, allow God to replenish our spirits and expel the waste as easily as exhaling. But instead, we spiritually hold our breath and allow everything that harms us to slowly suffocate us. Why not stop holding our breathing and allow God to consume us from the inside out.
The most effective way to establish dramatic change is from the inside out. Think of how God created Adam. From the dust, the body of Adam was created into an empty vessel. And what did God do…He BREATHED life into Adam. From the moment of creation, God intended us to be occupied by the spirit and His presence. Life as we know it is a constant struggle between feeding our spirit and allowing our flesh to consume us. As previously stated, the two cannot coexist in the same vessel. We try on our own to fight our flesh but it is in vain. It’s the equivalent of holding our breath and saying we are breathing as normal. Only God’s presence can restore life to our spirits in order fend off our flesh.
So this is my prayer…that I would no longer justify my circumstances as this is the best that I can do. This is completely ridiculous, I am selling God short. Paul prays in Ephesians 3:20: …Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think…Why not simply relinquish our sickened and suffocating state and just allow God to do His work in us unhindered by our own discomfort. I for one am going to allow God to do His thing and start breathing easy for a while.
