Our verse this week is from 2 Timothy 3:16-17:
"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."
God breathes scripture. God breathes life into us. God's Word breathes NEW life into me.
2 Corinthians 2:14 (MSG) states:
"In
the Messiah, in Christ, God leads us from place to place in one
perpetual victory parade. Through us, he brings knowledge of Christ.
Everywhere we go, people breathe in the exquisite fragrance. Because of
Christ, we give off a sweet scent rising to God, which is recognized by
those on the way of salvation—an aroma redolent with life."
I read this earlier and wanted to share...it is from Rabbi Lawrence Kushner:
“The letters of the name of God in Hebrew… are infrequently pronounced Yahweh. But in truth they are inutterable….
This word {YHWH} is the sound of breathing.
The holiest name in the world, the Name of Creator, is the sound of your own breathing. That these letters are unpronounceable is no accident. Just as it is no accident that they are also the root letters of the Hebrew verb ‘to be’… God’s name is name of Being itself.”
~Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
This week as we prepare for Easter...breathe in all that He has done for you. It is so hard to comprehend all that He has done...but lean into Him. "Let your roots grow down into Him, and let your lives be built on Him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness." Colossians 2:7
Breathe....listen for the sound... and root down to rise up.
“For
you. For all your regrets and for all your impossibles,
for all that will never be and for all that once was,
for all that you can’t make right and for all that you got wrong,
for your Judas failures and your Peter denials and your Lazarus griefs,
I offer to take the nails, the sharp edge of everything, and offer you myself because I want you, to take you,
you in your wild grief,
you in your anger and your disappointment and your wounds and your not-yet-there,
you, just as you are, not some improved version of you, but you – I came for you, to hold you, to carry you, to save you.”
for all that will never be and for all that once was,
for all that you can’t make right and for all that you got wrong,
for your Judas failures and your Peter denials and your Lazarus griefs,
I offer to take the nails, the sharp edge of everything, and offer you myself because I want you, to take you,
you in your wild grief,
you in your anger and your disappointment and your wounds and your not-yet-there,
you, just as you are, not some improved version of you, but you – I came for you, to hold you, to carry you, to save you.”
Ann Voskamp
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