DON'T WASTE YOUR BREATH!

if i were to scoop up a handful of dirt and blow into it, all i would get is a dirty face. When God did it, he got a living, breathing human being capable of thinking, feeling, dreaming, loving, reproducing, and living forever.


As one of this human beings, I speak of "catching" my breath "holding" my breath, or "saving" my breath, but these are idioms of language. I cannot save my breath for use at a later time. If i don't use the one now, I'll lose it, and may even lose consciousness.

When God breath into adam, He gave more than life; He gave a reason to live; Worship! As the plsamist said, "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord" (Ps. 150:6)

This means that we waste our breath when we use if for something that doesn't honor the One in whom "we live and move and have our being" (acts 17:28)

Although we cannot blow life into a handful of dirt, we can our breath to speak words of comfort, to sing songs of [raise, and to run to hel the sick and oppressed> When we use our breath to honor our Creator with our unique combination of talents, abilities, and opportunities, we will be wasting it. -Julie Ackerman Link

Breath on me, Breath of God
Fill me with life anew
That I may love what Thou dost love,
And do what Thou wouldst do - Natch