We have this treasure in earthen vessels… 2 Corinthians 4:7 (KJV)
His Breath In Us – The Spirit Series – Part 5
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Take a deep breath in. Fill your body with air – one long, steady breath. Hold it in for 10 seconds and give the oxygen time to filter into your blood and move about your body.
Now, slowly release your breath.
Heb 6:19 says, “We have this certain hope like a strong, unbreakable anchor holding our souls to God himself.”
The word ‘soul’ in this passage 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 say the name of God out loud: it was/is too sacred and holy to voice. ‘YHVH’ means “the source of being and the essence of being itself.”
Breath.
The Genesis story tells us that Adam lay motionless and lifeless, just a pile of dust and blood and bone until YHVH breathed his essence into him; filled his 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, the essence of the divine. We are 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).
Specialists say we only need to breathe 4 to 5 times per minute to get enough energy and oxygen through our bodies. However, most of us breathe up to 26 times a minute (26,000 breaths a day on average!). Puffed, rushed, stressed, worried, afraid, pre-occupied, going, going, going… we’re too busy to stop and take a breath, to breathe our life in. And then breathe it back 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 into our oxygen-starved bodies. We talk fast, eat fast, work fast, play fast, sleep fast… too fast. We miss out on the goodness of that breath in our bodies in more ways than one.
John says that in the beginning, Jesus was there. Just as his breath filled Adam, his spirit ignites our bodies and gives us life. He has always been here, drawing us to himself, permeating the world with his breath, connecting us all to each other.
Not by might, nor by power… but by his spirit.
He manifested on earth in human form: divine and infinite and blood and bone and breath; Jesus. His spirit lives within us as well as his breath filling our lungs; one firing up our physical bodies, the other our souls. Hebrews says that Jesus is our forerunner – not only was he there, in the beginning, being the source of everything, breathing into Adam and igniting life; but he empowers us right in the middle of our lives too, and goes before us into eternity. He fills every space, every sphere, every dimension with his breath, his essence, his being (Y-H-V-H).
In Genesis 18, when Sarah finally gave birth to her fist born, her long-awaited son, the promise, the little life that seemed like such an impossibility; the first thing that that tiny little baby boy did was breathe in (Y-H-V-H) and breathe out (Y-H-V-H). The divine present in, around and through it all.
Spirit.
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