“The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.” Job 33:4
God’s love breaths life into even the dead soul. Believe me, He can raise the dead to life, I know. He breathed His breath into my dry, dead bones. God looked out and saw my dry bones in the valley of darkness. Striving mightily to find fulfillment in the hedonistic world, searching with my own power, in the center of that valley, lost in my sin.
“Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” John 20:19
It was in this darkness, into which I had locked myself up that Jesus stepped. It was through this locked door, into the dark room that was my world that Jesus stepped, breathing upon me. Calling me to peace. I didn’t even know what that meant. That breath came to me and filled me with His Spirit. It was only then that I took my first breath. And, as Jesus breathed out, the doors and walls surrounding me burst, the light poured in.
I thank God every day that He sought me out in my dead valley. That He sought me out and came to me. That He came to me and took my hand, ‘My son, raise.’ That He raised me from the darkness and breathed His very life into me.
“I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.” – St. Francis
God loves each of you with a passion set ablaze at creation and exploded upon your soul at Calvary. God sought you out and from the cross burst into your locked room. Jesus walks into whatever darkness surrounds you with that same love. “Peace be with you.”
With His breath, He will renew your soul. Your heart will beat and pound out of your chest. Your lungs will fill with the breath of God. And you will breath out His praise with your life.
“Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth. O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.”