So I guess I'm starting a blog. This should be fun and entertaining. I don't think I'll be very consistent, but hopefully I can do enough that it will be useful. I want to do this to help myself become more intentional about learning what God has to teach me and to share this with others. I have a journal and my favorite thing about it is that through writing in it I learn more about myself and about God. I hope that the affect will be the same with the blog.
2. I must put my worth in heaven, where it will last.
About the title: I named my blog "A Breath from Heaven." I hope that you can see the purposeful verbal irony in the phrase. First, it refers to the way we were created with the breath of God.
The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Genesis 2:7
My life come from Him, therefore I am the direct result of a breath from heaven. Not only that, but I was revived by His breath, and I received the Holy Spirit by His breath.
And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit." John 20:22
So my life was created by God's breath and the proof of his salvation in my life also comes from His breath. He is more ways than one the beginning of my life.
The title's second meaning is "A Breath [away] from Heaven." It implies that all that I am guaranteed is the breath I have right now. I could be taken away at any moment to heaven. For me, this means two things.
1. I need to live my life to the fullest, doing as much as I can with the time I'm given.
Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Ephesians 5:15-16
2. I must put my worth in heaven, where it will last.
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Matthew 6:19-21
Though in one way the day that I die will be and end, in a much bigger sense it is a beginning. So my prayer is that God will continue to breathe into me so that my life stories will be a part of His life story.
