Monday, July 22, 2013

Week 30 - Day 2

Jeremiah 10-12; Psalm 119:97-104

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Jeremiah 10-12 YouVersion(NIV)

“Their images are a fraud; they have no breath in them.”

Jeremiah chapter 10 talks about the idols that people were worshiping and how they were worthless.  These images were made by human hands.  They were wooden objects that could not walk, could not talk, could do no harm, and could do no good.  These words from verse 14 particularly stood out to me: “They have no breath in them.”

“But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God…”  God is the one who breathes life into our existence.  When God created Adam,  “the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” (Genesis 2:7)  

He alone brings life and breath!  I love these verses:
“When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar;
He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth.
He sends lightening with the rain…”
“He is the Maker of all things…”
“The Lord Almighty is His name.”

I experienced the breath of God in a time of worship yesterday.  I had for a few days been feeling … for lack of better words … blah.  I felt tired, down and discouraged for no real reason, and frustrated and annoyed by just ‘stuff.’  But He breathed new life in me, and I spent the rest of the day enjoying my family and the scenery of God’s creation around me.  Beautiful God-breathed life everywhere!

So thankful for the living God who breathes life into my soul, and praying that He would in turn use me to breathe life into someone else’s soul today.   



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