Breathe

So David showed me this video tonight by Rob Bell, who has a series of his Nooma videos. The name of this video was called “Breathe.” It was so relevant, and I know that this can help anyone come to some realizations in life.

When we are distracted in life or moving too fast we are distracted from our breathing! We need to stand on holy ground all the time, but when we move to fast in life, we miss the burning bushes on both sides of us. God hears our cry and wants to rescue us! The thing about LORD is that in the Hebrew language the name LORD is pronounced Yod, Heh, Vav, Heh. In many instances the LORD isn't even pronounced, it is so sacred that the name of the LORD is unpronounceable, because essentially the letters together are the sound of breathing, Yod Heh Vav Heh. Rob Bell continues on to ask, is the name of God the sound of breathing? There is this paradox at the heart of what it means to be a human being. We are fragile, because we come from the dust. Ecclesiastes 3:20 says, "All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return."

Why is it that the strangest things can get under our skin so quickly? Do we ever have moments where we feel like your seconds from losing it? It's because we come from the dust, we are fragile, our life is but a breath, even for those who seem secure!

Psalm 39:5 says "You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Each man's life is but a breath."

As Bell had been saying all of this, what caught my attention was right when he said "even those that seem secure, their life is but a breath." This is so relevant, because for me it is hard to talk about God with people who seem completely secure, because they seem to have such a perfect life in their minds, because it seems as if every single aspect of their life is well off and nothing so far in their lives has caused them to think that life can be any better than it already is. Yet with God, life can be so much greater! They are not mature with life or with God--He is what they are missing in their lives. They don't realize that the life they live is simply but a breath, and that it can be taken away in one heart beat. They are only living life, because of the breath that God has given them. These people are the ones who really can be hurt the most by the devastations that life can bring—My heart really does go out to people in life that are like this!

God has crowned us with glory and honor--the glory and honor that God is referring to is the people that God has made. This is why I believe it is so powerful for us to love one another and not judge, but show the true light of Jesus that is within us. There is holiness to the people around us. Jesus said, what ever you do for them, you have done for Him. God is there because He is HERE. We are bringing God all of the glory through the relationships that God has allowed us to have in our lives. What we do for our genuine relationships, what we invest in these relationships, that God wants us to have, that he has placed in our lives, obviously for a reason, is what we have done for God---this is one way that we glorify God through the meaningful God driven relationships that he has placed in our lives. These are the relationships that are really worth the investment and time-- I truly believe this. Your life is but a breath, yet we have been made by the creator of everything. We are sacred.

The physical breath that we all possess is actually a picture of a deeper reality. In the bible the word for breath is the same word as the word for spirit. In Greek it's the word Nooma. When God takes away the breath of all living creatures, then they die and return to the dust, but when God sends the spirit they are created. If the spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, then God will give you life!

The spirit of God living in you sanctifies---meaning to purge and clean out, essentially meaning that when you let God in when you breathe, what happens is you become aware of all of the things that you need to leave behind, everything that you need to let go of, everything that you NEED TO BREATHE OUT! I have personally done that with my life in the last couple of weeks, and it has been fantastic! Because I have allowed the spirit of God to live in me; the spirit sanctifies. The spirit of God has cleansed my soul and every part of my life! I just have to keep my focus on God, not be too quick in things, and not be distracted from everything in this world.--this is when the spirit will really allow me to breathe, because I have of course allowed God to be within me!

Jesus said that the spirit of God guides us into TRUTH. What we need is to breathe. God gives the spirit without limit!! God IS spirit, and we are a sacred creation of God, the divine breath is flowing through you. You are on HOLY GROUND. A person doesn't have to agree with this for it to already be true--it's a given, it is obvious when someone is born.

When a baby is born what is the first thing it must do or else that baby isn't going to make it? Does the baby have to take a breath or say the name of God? The baby must take a breath, just as one takes a breath before dying. When we can no longer say the name of God (breathe) we die. Is it possible that you can be sitting across from a table having lunch with a friend and that friend is saying to you, "there is no God," but what you will be hearing is " Yod, Heh, Vav, Heh," because you are hearing the breath, the spirit, God's name through that friend's words?

The ground that you are standing on is Holy. As you slow down, may you become aware that it's in " Yod, Heh, Vav, Heh " that we live, and we move, and we breathe.

Most of this was me summarizing exactly what Rob Bell said in his video, and he has said it so perfect, because God has spoken through Him, so there wasn't a need for me to explain into my own words. God has allowed Bell's word to basically be perfect in how God wanted it to be said. I just simply expanded my personal thoughts on certain facts, such as the fact that people who feel as if they are completely secure are going to simply crash and burn, because they don't realize how fragile their life and breath is in their life. I also expanded on when Bell talked about there being holiness to the people around us. Jesus said, whatever you do for them, you have done for Him. I truly believe this, and I have expanded my thoughts on that about relationships that God gives us in life.

We must breathe, because this is how we truly say the name of the LORD. :D

Romans 8:9-11 says "You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you." :-)

Here is this video; it is in two parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAP0aoa8FtM (part I)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-JFDkypxRw (part II)

(It shows the subtitles in Spanish, but the video is really in English.)


David, thank you once again for sharing this video with me bro! Much appreciated. It has spoken volumes to me in many different ways. I am sure you can guess the aspects.