Today I was thinking about breathing and how awesome it is. 24 hours a day 7 days a week we are constantly breathing in and out without thinking about it at all. What would happen if we just decided to stop breathing? We'd pass out, black out, and once we'd lose the control we had to suppress our breathing we'd automatically start up again. If we think about it do we stop breathing? No.
Breathing is like our relationship with God should be. We depend upon oxygen for life, and we should depend upon God in this way as well. Think about it, constantly talking with God like it talks about being constantly in prayer in 2 Thessalonians. In any situation that we would come to - to pray and talk it through with God. Before ever decision. Before every soccer game. Before every band performance. Before every dance recital. Before ever meal. Before everything - talk to God. During it all, giving praise to our Creator. In the USA it's so easy to take everything for granted. We have SO much, that we don't NEED to depend on God for anything. But when you get down to it? We need God. Desperately. We just don't realize it, just like we don't realize we're breathing all the time. We always need God, we always need oxygen. We can try to stop ourselves from needed oxygen by holding our breath, we can try to live without dependency on God - but eventually we'll black out and start breathing again. Say I decide to go on a run or kick box as I'm more inclined to do. I start breathing harder and my lungs work to keep up. Shouldn't we be running the spiritual race? Working harder and growing more dependent on Christ as we grow? I'm not really sure if this makes sense at all to anyone else, but I like it. So next time you take in a breath - think of God. He gave you that breath.
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