Heart and Lungs

Rhythmic steps; breathe in, then out; heart beating strong as blood and air flow throughout my body on a beautiful spring day. I’m feeling alive and strong. I’m running, when God decides to capture my attention for a moment and remind me of how I exist physically and how he hopes for me to exist spiritually.

Genesis 2:7- then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. (ESV)

I was reminded that day that when I run, I experience an expansion of lung capacity. The more I run, the more easily I am able to move air. Likewise, my heart is a muscle which is strengthened by this exercise making it possible for life giving blood to flow through my body at a healthy rate due to a strong heart muscle at work.

What does my spiritual heart beat for? What breath are my spiritual lungs pushing? The Bible refers to God as the giver of life and the breath of life. Does my heart beat for Him? Do my lungs push His life giving breath to others around me? I must exercise my spiritual heart and lungs. He desires for me to experience a strong heart rhythm that beats with a sole purpose of bringing all of His children back in relationship with Him. He desires for me to have the capability of pushing so much of His air through my spiritual lungs that others around me will experience life because of His breath.

Father, I pray that my heart beats in perfect rhythm with yours; a heart that cries out for your lost children and rejoices when they find their way back home. I pray that your life giving breath flows through me and out to those around me that they may too feel so alive.

They’re just words…    until His breath flows through you!