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January 2
Friday


DON'T WASTE
YOUR BREATH

READ:
Genesis 2:1-7
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Let everything that has
breath praise the LORD.
__Psalm 150:6
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If I were to scoop up a handful of dirt and blow into it, all I would get is a dirty face. When God did it, He got a living, breathing human being capable of thinking, feeling, dreaming, loving, reproducing, and living forever.

As one of these human beings, I speak of "catching" my breath, "holding" my breath, or "saving" my breath, but these are idioms of language. I cannot save my breath for use at a later time. If I don't use the one I have now, I'll lose it, and I may even lose consciousness.

When God breathed into Adam, He gave more than life; He gave a reason to live: Worship! As the psalmist said, "Let everything that has breath praise the LORD" (Ps. 150:6).

This means that we waste our breath when we use it for something that doesn't honor the One in whom "we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28).

Although we cannot blow life into a handful of dirt, we can use our breath to speak words of comfort, to sing songs of praise, and to run to help the sick and oppressed. When we use our breath to honor our Creator with our unique combination of talents, abilities, and opportunities, we will never be wasting it. __Julie Ackerman Link
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```````````````````Breathe on me, Breath of God,````````````````
```````````````````````Fill me with life anew,````````````````````
`````````````````That I may love what Thou dost love,`````````````
````````````````And do what Thou wouldst do. __Hatch````````````
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All that I am and have I owe to Jesus.

***************Today's Bible Reading __ Genesis 2:1-7************

1 Thus the heavens and the
earth, and all the host of
them, were finished. 2 And
on the seventh day God
ended His work which He
had done, and He rested on
the seventh day from all His
work which He had done.

3 Then God blessed the
seventh day and sanctified
it, because in it He rested
from all His work which
God had created and made.

4 This is the history of the
heavens and the earth when
they were created, in the
day that the LORD God
made the earth and the
heavens, 5 before any plant
of the field was in the earth
and before any herb of the
field had grown. For the
LORD God had not caused it
to rain on the earth, and
there was no man to till the
ground; 6 but a mist went
up from the earth and
watered the whole face of
the ground.

7 And the LORD God
formed man of the dust of
the ground, and breathed
into his nostrils the breath
of life; and man became a
living being.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Genesis, the first book in the Bible, is the book of beginnings, and for
good reason. In it we see the beginning of all creation (Gen. 1), the
beginning of humanity (Gen. 1-2), the beginning of family life and
its trials (Gen. 2-4), the beginning of sin and its devastation (Gen. 3),
the beginning of God's dealings with human depravity (Gen. 3-6),
the beginning of multiplied languages (Gen. 11), the beginning of
God's setting apart of a chosen people through Abram (Gen. 11-25),
and the beginning of the tribes of Israel (Gen. 29-50). Importantly,
we also see the beginning of God's promise of a Rescuer for His lost
and rebellious creation (Gen 3:15). __Bill Crowder