The Breath of Life

The Breath of Life

The average person breathes 26,000 breaths each day...

 16 to 20 breaths per minutes that most of us never think about.

Each breath gives you life.

Where does your next breath come from?

In the beginning, God breathed into Adam

and he became a living soul

The breath of God is as close as the air you and I breathe.

You and I need both to live.

I can only image what it would be like

to give CPR to a drowning victim.

To breathe into

a lifeless body.

 To see life come back to someone

because you gave them breath.

As a young boy,

I used to sit in church

and see how long I could

hold my breath.

I remember making the 1 minute mark

as the second hand passed 12.

No matter how many times

I held my breath

I could not keep it to myself.

I had to exhale.

We breathe a fresh breath every second

and never give it a thought.

Every second you and I

need a fresh breath of air.

Of all the things we need,

and think we need,

the simplest and most plentiful

is the most important.

We need the breath of life.

God breathed into Adam

and he became a living soul.

It was that breath

that gave him life.

When Adam released that first breath,

he was dependent on the next breath.

We take for granted the air we breathe

and in the same way

we take God for granted.

He is all around us

giving us the ability

to live and move.

Hold your breath

and see how long you can live

without God.

See how long it takes

before you are gasping for Him.

Both the Hebrew and Greek

words for spirit means breath.

You and I were made to live

by the Spirit of God.

He is our breath of life.

Scripture Reading

Genesis 2:1-7 NIV

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing;

so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,

because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created.

When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens — 

5 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth

and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground,

6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground — 

7 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.

Acts 17:24-28 NIV

24 "The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven

and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.

25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything,

because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.

26 From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.

27 God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

28'For in him we live and move and have our being.'

As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'