Encouragement: Life Giving Breath

Here is your daily encouragement words and thoughts. Today I bring you encouragement from Psalm 104:27-35

All of your creatures wait for you
to provide them with food on a regular basis.
28 You give food to them and they receive it;
you open your hand and they are filled with food.
29 When you ignore them, they panic.
When you take away their life’s breath, they die
and return to dust.
30 When you send your life-giving breath, they are created,
and you replenish the surface of the ground.
31 May the splendor of the Lord endure!
May the Lord find pleasure in the living things he has made!
32 He looks down on the earth and it shakes;
he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.
33 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I exist!
34 May my thoughts be pleasing to him!
I will rejoice in the Lord.
35 May sinners disappear from the earth,
and the wicked vanish!
Praise the Lord, O my soul!
Praise the Lord!

Biblical Studies Press. (2006; 2006). The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Ps 104:27-35). Biblical Studies Press.

I awoke this morning with the breath of God on my mind. When I opened God's word this morning breath greeted me there as well.

First in Genesis 2:7 "The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." One of the commentaries I referenced made this statement on Breath "Whatever is given this breath of life becomes animated with the life from God, has spiritual understanding (Job 32:8), and has a functioning conscience (Prov 20:27)." So by this we are made from soil from the ground and breath given by God.

Our Psalm here re-enforces this concept and clarifies that when he takes his breath back to Himself our mortal bodies die and this "living being" returns to God"

All this is just another picture of how important God is to our lives. The next time you feel distressed and are fretting or are feeling all alone or just feel that you can not make it through the day. Take all your focus and place it on your breath. Your breathing in and your breathing out. God is still with you. You are not alone. You have the breath of life in you.

"I will rejoice in the Lord" Rejoice and focus on God. Trust Him. You are never alone.

Amen

Music Encouragement Breathe by Michael W. Smith
Darlene Zschech - Breathe on me
Meredith Andrews - You're Not Alone