September 1, 2013: All Things New – Jon Gettings

The Spirit of God is as close as our next breath, because he is the one who gives us our life and our breath and everything else. So we breathe and have life, and when we stop breathing we have death. Which means for us there is a continual process of renewal within us. With each new breath we experience the life of God.

But what’s really fascinating is that to breathe in, we need to breathe out. And the stuff we breathe out is poisonous to us. It would kill us to only breathe the air we are breathing out. Which raises the question, “What do we need to breathe out?” What are the things in our life we need to get rid of to open up space for the breath of God? The breath that gives life.