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Thankful Thursday #7

I could jump out of my skin for what I am thankful for today!

It’s AIR! Today I am crazy thankful for AIR!

So very thankful for something I cannot see, but can see what it does. I cannot touch it, but can feel it when it moves.

I need it every minute of every hour of every day and without it I would die.

Oh my AIR! How wonderful and beautiful and special and unappreciated it is until we are so desperate for it, it’s the only thing we can think about.

When we first moved to Texas, I had major breathing problems every fall. They were so severe, I would land in urgent care getting emergency breathing treatments. I became the owner of an inhaler and an Epi Pen. In those moments of desperation, I guarantee you I was solely focused on breathing and how I would give up everything I had, except my family, just for the next breath.

Isn’t AIR so much like THE HOLY SPIRIT?!

We can’t see Him, but can see the effects when He moves.

We can’t touch Him but we can surely feel Him and His presence.

And we surely need Him every moment of every hour of every day!

We are definitely hyper aware of our need for Him when desperation kicks in and we are needing emergency treatments and help from Him!

In my humble mind, it’s no mistake that God designed our bodies to be so dependent on air.

I mean think about it for a minute. He could have made us dependent on water, but He didn’t. We can see and touch and somewhat hang onto water.

Maybe, just maybe, He made our physical bodies dependent on something we cannot see or touch so our spiritual minds and hearts will learn to do the same as we lean on the Holy Spirit for guidance and sustaining us.

SCRIPTURES FOR THE DAY

JOB 33:4 puts it so beautifully, "The SPIRIT of God has MADE ME, and the BREATH OF THE ALMIGHTY gives me life."

JOHN 3:8 is a beautiful description of air and The Spirit,

"THE WIND BLOWS WHERE IT WISHES, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is BORN OF THE SPIRIT.”

2 CORINTHIANS 5:5 tells us He gave us The Holy Spirit as a GIFT, "He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has GIVEN US THE SPIRIT AS A GUARANTEE."

However you are breathing right now, I am so very thankful that you are!