Take a deep breathe in. Now breathe out.
God is active in your life.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
God is active in your life.
In. Out.
God is active.
Every single breath you take is a gift from God--a deliberate act of God's will to give you one more breath of life...and another...and another.
God's not done with you yet.
Look all around you! Look at the life existing throughout our world! Marvel at the mountains, embrace the beauty of the trees, and look at the people. See the people? Oh my gosh, there are so many people. Children and elderly; black and white; singles and couples. There's life and there's beauty--diversity and unity. (And you know, what?) It's ALL good!! And, all good things come from God!
Breathe In. Breathe Out.
God's goodness is all over the world we live in. But, the sad thing is that, through the cracks, evil is allowed to seep through. Dark clouds rise over the world. The darkness rules these places and as a result, our visions start to blur. It can even get to the point when we are having trouble seeing the light--the magnificent, marvelous light of God.
Bad things happen in this world.
Depression. Abuse. Death. Divorce. Betrayal. Rejection. Grief.
Suffering is a part of our lives. As human beings, we a forced to experience such things because, sadly, we do not live in a perfect world.
Trust me, life gets rough. It gets hard to push through it sometimes. Some days I just want to escape from it all, but I can't. I just can't run away from life. It doesn't work like that. I have to push through it and keep on living my life.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
There it is: another gift from God.
Now, we know all good things come from God, but for some reason, God allows all those bad things to happen (even though He never starts it). I mean, we can go ahead and shake our fists at Him and ask Him why He would do such a thing to us, but honestly, that would accomplish nothing. However, there's another option: we can submit ourselves to His glory and hold on tight to His promises of goodness and love.
One day (when the time is just right), He will penetrate this awful darkness and His light will shine upon our weak and fallen bodies. And we will realize that every pain and every struggle we encountered in the dark abyss of the world was NOTHING compared to the glory we will experience with God.
We're human. We're going to experience intense struggle. There's no doubt about that. But, we should remember that every single excruciating moment is stuffed full of meaning. We are alive and God is working in us. We can't ever forget that.
"Let everything that has breath..."
Breathe in.
"Praise the Lord."
Breathe out.
