Christ's Light

Breathe…

I just want to say I’ve been thoroughly touched by the Lord through a recent conversation with Travis Wilcoxson (my deep theology bro!) and Ashley Jorris (later on that same night/morn) of the New Year and a recent message that I’ve heard. God has been so faithful in my position and I’m believing and asking God for great things for this year, but that is a whole different story for another day. Anyway I’m calling this however many part message until it is complete the “Breath of God”. Here it is:

Each day we take about 26,000 breaths which amounts to about 14,000 liters of air. We have somewhere between (on average) 16 and 20 breaths we take a minute. Most experts would say that from our breathing we should get about 99% of our energy, and you’d be surprised to find out that we only get around 10-20% of what we should be getting out of our breaths. But who really has the time of day to think about their breathing?

Then I became awakened to a biblical story which most are familiar with. Moses was a shepherd living in a land called Mideon. God appears to him speaking through a burning bush and commands Moses to take off his sandals for the ground he is standing on is holy.

Understand that Moses lived in that land for 40 years and he has under no doubt walked by that very bush before. The ground didn’t just suddenly change and become mysteriously holy. It’s that Moses came to the revelation of it. This raises up a very important question to us: “Are we standing on holy ground all the time?” Are we passing burning bushes constantly? And are we moving too fast to see them?

Well it has become known to God through the cry of his people in slavery in Egypt that he wants to save his bride. God desires that Moses would go and rescue them and Moses responds “If I go to these people and I say to them that God wants to liberate them, they are going to say to me: ‘Well what is this God’s name?’”. So Moses says to God “What is your name?” Also, take note that in the life of Moses it is read that Moses had a relationship with God that it was like a one on one friendship basis. He could literally turn his shoulder and ask God anything (in my imagination, although it’s pretty much what happened), so it’s quite normal for Moses to talk to God in this manner. Anyway God responds with “Moses, you tell them the Lord sent you.”

The word Lord is derived from the Hebrew language and in English we would abbreviate it “Y.H.V.H” but in Hebrew the letters are pronounced “Yod Hey Vau Hey”. In modern terms we call him “Yahweh” or even “Yahveh”. Essentially though they (the “Y.H.V.H”) were thought to be vowels in the Hebrew language. Well those sounds were thought to be breathing sounds in the culture of the time and technically were thought of as “unpronounceable”. So because this name is “unpronounceable” man can not “defile” it (which is my personal interpretation).

So my question is this: “Is the name of God, being that it is LORD or Yahweh (among many other names), the sound of breathing?”