Psalm 146:2
“I will praise the Lord for as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.”
Today I had a picture in my imagination that I literally breathed in God (just as he breathed His spirit into the nostrils of Adam.) As I breathed out, there were a multitude of things that came out of my mouth. Just like a cartoon picture of a man, his head tilted up and his mouth wide open, there were words, symbols and things coming out of my mouth. Among the things coming from my mouth were question marks.
I can either breathe out the worship and praise to Jesus, or choose to exhale and exhibit the “other.” The “other” is anything other than that which is a reflection of, and in alignment with, what God is breathing into me.
The questions and uncertainties that reflect doubt and a lack of faith become the “other.”
God invites our curiosity and digging into the knowledge and wisdom of His nature and His ways. He created us with imagination and desire to turn over every rock and look deeper. These are not the question marks that I saw.
The question marks that I perceived are those breathed from an enemy that has set himself up against the knowledge of God. They are an unwillingness to trust; they are the words and declarations that are counter to what God says about me and for me.
Proverbs 18:21 says, “The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk, will reap the consequences.”
I must choose what escapes from my lips. I can release anger, doubt, fear and frustration through the words I speak. Or I can release the breath of His presence in my life as a reflection of Him in the earth, cooperating with Him by the very things I say.
Penny Renfroe is a care pastor at OneChurch in Whitesboro and best-selling author of “Threads of the Father.”