The Trail · Step 1 · Creation
Breathe in Me
Before you do anything for God, the breath in your lungs is already His gift. Start there.
Lyrics appear here and follow along as the song plays.
Open the scroll to the beginning. Before there is a commandment, before there is a covenant, before there is a nation, there is a declaration about the nature of life itself. God speaks, and it is. And then He comes to man.
"Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." — Genesis 2:7
Stop here. Man is not self-originating life. He is dust — clay — until God breathes. The life in Adam was never Adam's own production. It was received. He is a vessel, formed to hold a life that is not his own.
And notice what God does next. He does not hand Adam a task list. He plants a garden full of every good tree and says eat — receive, not produce. Right here, before sin ever enters, is the first declaration the whole trail runs on:
Life is always received from God. Death comes when man takes it into his own hands.
The breath you are breathing right now is not yours. It is His, given. That is where the trail begins — and the New Testament never forgets it: He "gives to all mankind life and breath and everything" (Acts 17:25).
A prayer
Breathe, O God, the only Living. I am clay until You fill me, dust until You are known. I am not the river but the bed, not the flame but the wick — the only life I have is the life You said. Breathe — and I become Your home.
Go deeper →
Creation
- Where am I living as though my life were my own production, instead of something received breath by breath?
- The song says, I am not the river — I am the bed. What am I trying to be the source of, that I was only ever meant to receive?