We have this certain hope like a strong, unbreakable anchor holding our souls to God himself.
Breath of Life – Part 5
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The word ‘soul' in this passage in Hebrews means “breath, the essence of life.”
The Ancients called God ‘Lord.’ When we write the name in English, we write ‘L-O-R-D’, but in ancient Hebrew, they wrote ‘Y-H-V-H.’ In many ancient traditions, people wouldn’t even say the name of God, believing it was too sacred and holy to voice. ‘YHVH' means “the source of being and the essence of being itself.”
When YHVH finished forming Adam out of dust, he was still just a pile of earth and clay and bone; he lay motionless and lifeless until YHVH breathed his essence into him. It’s the breath of God that filled Adam's blood with oxygen, expanded his lungs for the first time, fired up his brain and shook his heart into its first beat. That pile of dust shaped into human became the carrier of the breath of God. We are essentially spirit jars; dust buckets filled with the Divine. “We have this treasure in earthen vessels…” (2 Cor 4:7).
You pronounce the letters of Y-H-V-H singularly (Hod-Hey-Vav-Hey), and when you say them as they traditionally sound, it sounds like breathing in and out. The essence of ‘YHVH' fills us all, from the day we take our first breath (Y H V H) until the day we spend our last (Y H V H).
We each take about 26,000 breaths a day. Specialists say we only need to breathe 4 to 5 times per minute to gain optimum energy and oxygen levels through our bodies. However, most of us breath up to 26 times a minute. Busy, stress, rushing, worry, fear, hatred, never stopping, going, going, going… we’re too busy to stop and take a breath, to breathe our life in and breathe it out. We should be able to get 90% of the energy our bodies need from deep breathing, but most of us breathe too shallowly, expelling much of its goodness before it's had time to work its divine wonders.
Hope is our soul's anchor. It grounds our breathing, the essence of our life, the source of our energy. Hope cuts through the fear and the noise. It stays calm in doubt, still in anger, focused through pain and helps us breath in (Y-H-V-H) and breath out (Y-H-V-H) deeply and fully through everything that we face. Hope gives us what we need to face each struggle, each challenge and hurdle. And puts success and achievement in its proper place.
Jesus is this hope. It's crazy how involved he is in all of this! John says that in the beginning, Jesus was there. Just as his breath filled Adam, his spirit ignites our bodies, giving us life. And he has always been here, like a breath… breathing his love over us. Drawing us ever to himself, permeating all things, connecting us all to each other.
Then, he manifested on earth in human form. Divine and infinite and blood and bone and body; Jesus. And because of his death and resurrection, we can have his spirit living within us as well as his breath filling our lungs; one firing up our physical bodies, the other our spirits. Hebrews says that Jesus is our forerunner – not only was he there in the beginning, being the source of everything, but he empowers us right in the middle of our lives, and goes before us into eternity. Filling every space, every sphere, every dimension with his breath, his essence, his being (Y-H-V-H).
“Our anchor of hope is fastened to the mercy seat which sits in the heavenly realm beyond the sacred threshold, and where Jesus, our Forerunner, has gone in before us. He is now and forever our Royal Priest like Melchizedek.”
He connects our natural lives with the supernatural, he fills our dust bodies with the infinite and the divine. He was there in the beginning, he is here now, and he is in the age to come… An anchor of hope. From the boats of our lives, through the oceans of our living, anchored to the foundation of all things.
In Genesis 18, when Sarah finally gave birth to her fist born, to her long-awaited son, the promise, the little life that seemed like such an impossibility, the first thing that tiny little baby boy did, that promise of life, was breathe in (Y-H-V-H) and breathe out (Y-H-V-H). The divine present in, around and through it all.
Go to Part 6 – Abraham, Melchizedek and an Anchor
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