Thirty Days of Thanksgiving and Worship Exemplo

Worship, Our Oxygen...

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!
Psalm 150:6

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!

It doesn’t get much simpler than this.

The last verse of the last of the Psalms declares that if you and I are breathing, we had better get our praise on. I am pretty sure no one is exempt.

If you and I are alive at this moment – which I am assuming we are – then Lord Jesus is worthy of all our worship and praise. Think of it – it is His breath that gave us life in the first place. And in return, we discover that our life’s oxygen is to worship Him with that very breath!

The tender act in the Garden of Eden – where it all began for humanity – was God sharing with us His very own breath of life. God literally breathed His Holy Spirit into Adam and Eve. In fact, The original Hebrew and Greek words that are translated into the English word, Spirit, actually mean breath, to breathe, breeze, and wind! The Third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit is God's Holy Breath upon us.

And those who have received Christ by faith have been filled with the life-breath power of the Holy Spirit. He now lives within us. Our once dead spirit has been born again; has been made alive! (John 3:5-6, Ephesians 2:1)

The early church apologist, Ireneaus of Lyons, penned, the glory of God is man fully alive. We are fully alive when we worship as we intentionally press into the throne room of the Holy of Holies and allow the Holy Spirit to catch us up with the heavenly hosts.

So, it is time to praise. Time to direct our adoration upward. Time to remember He holds our breath in His hands and owns all our ways. It is time to inhale a deep breath of the Holy Spirit and exhale with new words and phrases that describe our King.

It is time for us to revel in His love and not hold back. It is time for everything and everyone that has breath to praise Him.