Lord, You are my fresh breath!
https://www.facebook.com/thechurchintoledo/posts/1568571479968521...When we communicate with each other, there are many ways that we speak from the dark side of humanity. If you listen to most people’s conversations, when they come to developing a strategy, it always sounds like, “Oh, we should prevent…” —all from the dark side. How many people can talk from the bright side of humanity? The green side—organic, vital, bright, sunny. For some reason, we always come from the shadowed part. We are fearful, negative, and try to mimic a strategy to survive. We should come out of that surviving mode. We should tell ourselves, “I want to live healthy! I need to think healthy! I want to eat healthy!” Eating is not just with our mouth. We read, we hear, we think. These all are considered “intake." When we open the Bible, how can we read the Bible with the right thoughts? The right intake? Oftentimes when we pray, we just pray to ourselves or form a strategy in our prayer. Do you know how dangerous that could be in the most spiritual exercise? We are forming our own bubble, our own world. We have to force the Lord into what we want, so we say, “You have to listen to me. And this is my definition about my faith toward You.” And that actually is from the dark side of humanity. Can we go to the Lord to say, “Thank You that You are the Son! Thank You that You are my fresh air! Lord, You are my fresh breath!”? We don’t need to analyze: “Lord, You are the oxygen that I’m breathing in.” But rather, take Him in: “Lord, You are my breath, my air! You are my water!”
Do we know what saves us? “Lord, I breathe You in. Nothing else. Lord, I take You in. I don’t need a definition.” We don’t need any definition. We don’t need anyone’s praises. Sometimes our praise is very mixed. “Lord, You are the faithful One,” followed by a lot of expectations. Can we just simply breathe the Lord in? How simple that is. “
