Savior's Breath

READ: GENESIS 2:7; 1 KINGS 19:11-13; JOHN 3:8; ACTS 2:1-4

The Wind is a song that echoes free

Bringing my Savior close to me.

In my soul I hear Him say,

“I AM here, not far away.”

The Wind is a song that echoes true

Singing, Christ, my Lord, of You.

The living breath is breathed above

Defying death and sending love.

The Wind is a call

of brightening hope

Though I search in thought

and in darkness grope.

Through valley deep

and mountains steep

In Your peaceful rest I’ll sleep.

The trees, they dance, for You are near,

Losing loss and frightening fear.

After death, You did breathe

And the Wind has told it since.

Since after death, You did breathe,

Now I can sleep in rest. • Rachel Boetig

• God made everything in nature, and He reveals Himself in so many wonderful ways, including through His creation. Can you think of a time when you felt like God was speaking to you personally through nature? What was that like?

• When Jesus became human and lived among us, He inhaled and exhaled like we do. Yet, unlike us, He also commanded the very wind, and it obeyed (Mark 4:35-41). As we think about the cross, how striking it is that the God of all creation “breathed his last” (Mark 15:37). But, after three days in a tomb, He breathed again. So now, everyone who puts their trust in Jesus has the sure hope of new life. We will be raised from the dead at Jesus’s return, and in the meantime we have His Holy Spirit living in us. And the Bible often uses words like wind and breath when it talks about the Holy Spirit. If you want to dig deeper, read Ezekiel 37:1-14; John 1:1-4; 11:25; 20:22; Colossians 1:15-23.

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Psalm 19:1 (NIV)