IN HIM

“THE SPIRIT OF GOD HAS MADE ME, AND THE BREATH OF THE ALMIGHTY GIVES ME LIFE.” JOB 33:4

Before I was conceived into this life I was already in communion with Him who creates and calls us all. As the rain is happy to return to the ocean waters of her birth so the spirit of man rejoices to be reabsorbed into that from which he comes.

A great insatiable hunger stalks us each one until we find reunion with God; the Holy Spirit waits as an eager guide outside the heart’s door to show us the way; Christ has washed clean our path by His very blood and the Father awaits His prodigal children to find their way home. The journey begins long before air fills our lungs and continues after we cease upon this plane of life.
Whether God is amazed or amused at our aimless wanderings, I do not know; I do know He is ever present to lead us and unite with us. How pointless is most of what we fill our time with; how little we do for God or His Children; we have so little time for anyone once we are finished serving ourselves. At worse we never give God a thought, at best, most will squeeze out an hour or so a week to go though the motion of worshipping Him in a way that is most foreign to the God who calls us. Many never consider that life and worship are to be more.

Saddled by the pagan traditions of religion we must strive before we realize that there is anything more. Still the Holy Spirit waits to breathe life into us; the life we are suffocating to know. “IN GOD, I LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE MY BEING”; as a fish absorbs and is absorbed in the water of life through which he moves, so I must absorb, be absorbed and move in His presence. What a pitiful substitute is the religion of man for a living relationship with God. How pale are routine are the obligatory gatherings of “church” when compared with the refreshing reunion of a family who loves God.

“THE SPIRIT OF GOD HAS MADE ME, AND THE BREATH OF THE ALMIGHTY GIVES ME LIFE.” Amen!