BREATHE WORSHIP
Psalm 150
The Message v. 6: “Let every living, breathing creature praise God! Hallelujah!”
Psalm 150
The Message v. 6: “Let every living, breathing creature praise God! Hallelujah!”
Jocelyn came inside her house for lunch with a dirty face.
“Wash your face, Jocelyn! What have you been doing, eating dirt?” her Mom wondered.
When God played in the dirt, He created man! (Genesis 2:7). He breathed into man the breath of life, and man became a living, breathing creature. Was God having fun playing in the dirt? You bet! Jocelyn had fun too, but with different results.
We use the word “breath” in various phrases, like: catching my breath—when winded, holding my breath—when frightened, saving my breath—when something is useless, breathless—when awed. When God breathed into Adam, He gave us a reason to live: worship.
Every time we misuse the gift of breath—like telling a dirty joke—we’re wasting our breath. When we waste our breath on things that do not honor the One in Whom “we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28), we grieve the Holy Spirit. Dishonoring God, as His offspring, is like swearing to a parent.
What would that get you? Perhaps a slap in the face, or a grounding? How would you expect God to react?
Hopefully, we aspire to use our breath in a way that pleases, honors, and glorifies our Father-Creator. Speaking words of encouragement to someone who’s depressed is always a win-win-win. God smiles, the person smiles, and you smile. Now that’s not wasting breath, that’s praising God! That’s when you praise Him Who gave you breath.
Every time we use our unique gifts of talent, abilities, and opportunities we’re living, breathing worship. When we do that which we were wired to do, that’s our daily worship. (Jeremiah 1:5). Pretty cool that God wired us to want to live exactly the way we do naturally, huh?
Take Home Nugget
After someone does or says something that does not please our Father-Creator, the Holy Spirit nudges the person’s conscience. It’s best that we don’t ignore that conviction.
Acknowledging the sin and repenting is always in our best interest.
The sooner, the better.
Have you noticed that God makes it feel “natural” to do the right thing, respond the right way in every circumstance? The key to our victory is to continue “listening” to the heartbeat that’s directly above our own.
All that I am, all that I have, all my aspirations come from Jesus.
J.D. Griffith
Breathe on me, Breath of God,
Fill me with life anew;
That I may love what Thou dost love,
And do what thou wouldst do.
Hatch
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