THANK GOD FOR THE “BREATH OF LIFE!”

Friends, in a world too often filled with bad news, the primary Mission of Discovering A BETTER LIFE MINISTRIES, is in sharing the “Good News” that God has set sinners right with himself, by making it possible for everyone to enter into a personal relationship with Him through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ . This is a wonderful reality that we treasure and enjoy by trusting that it is true (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Today’s Message of Encouragement from Discovering A BETTER LIFE MINISTRIES

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(Ron Bainbridge Editor) (January 10th, 2020)

Friends, Lord willing, within 6 months I will turn 82 and during the almost 29,000 days of my life so far, have been graced with energy, enthusiasm and good health. Until this point I have been spared the major maladies of cancer, stroke and heart attack, for which I give God thanks.

Despite these marvelous blessings I am increasingly experiencing the mortality of this present body, a model neither intended nor equipped to function forever.

My present teachers in mortality and the frailty of life are actually a team of respiratory ailments and illnesses, including chronic Allergic Rhinitus, asthma and bronchitis, from whom I have learned much throughout many years.

For the past few years, my Rhinitus has been causing a cough that often interrupts prolonged sleep and depletes my energies somewhat.

However, these ailments teach me afresh that we are holistic beings, functional bodies composed of physical elements and animated by what the Bible calls the "breath of life" (Genesis 2:7).

Friend, although our English language provides three separate words for "wind," "breath" or "spirit," the two major biblical languages use just one word for all three -- pneuma in Greek and ruach in Hebrew.

In the poetic picture of the Genesis creation saga, the same divine wind/spirit that originally blows over the chaotic waters to create order and cosmos (Genesis 1:2) is the breath of life that God later breathes into Adam's lifeless dust nostrils and very literally "inspires" into existence a whole living being (psyche, nephesh, "soul"). Our life, like that of every animal (from the Latin word for breath) is God's continual gift -- when he withdraws our breath (spirit) we expire and return to dust (Psalm 104:29).

Remembering this, I bless the LORD our creator for his many benefits: He pardons our iniquities, heals our diseases and redeems our lives from the pit. He crowns us with loving kindness and compassion and satisfies our years with good things (Psalm 103:1-5).

Although God is eternal and almighty, He knows our frame and is mindful that we are but dust (Psalm 103:14). I thank Him for the breath of life and I ask Him to overthrow the powers of illness that threaten it.

Friend, I want to live so I can serve God and enjoy His sweet fellowship, as well as introducing as many people as possible to Jesus Christ, who is the One Person able to bring men and women into the sweet fellowship I am able to enjoy with our Father in Heaven.

For that, I again need God’s Spirit! So I also pray: "Create in me a clean heart, O God and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from thy presence, and do not take thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of thy salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit" (Psalm 51:10-12).

Friend, all human beings have received the “BREATH OF LIFE,” which has originated from God, our Creator and it is this “BREATH OF LIFE,” living in each of us which provides us with our reason for our existence and enables us to live with a sense of our own worth and dignity, as children of a living and vibrant God! (Acts 17:29-31).

Friend, if you would like help in obtaining a fresh look at God’s grace, we invite you to write to Discovering A BETTER LIFE and ask for our FREE booklets titled The Relentless Love of God,” “How to find God” and “Who is this Jesus?”

These booklets reveal to us the wonderful truth, that our inner security and happiness, at any age, comes from knowing that we all have “THE BREATH” of God within us and can know with a positive fact, that we are able to experience a sweet, intimate fellowship as His children, through our faith and obedience to Jesus Christ, our Saviour (John 3:16-17; Romans 5:1-11).

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