Life is a matter of inhaling and exhaling!
We also see this principle in so many other things, like the stock market (bulls and bears), cycles (sun, moon, seasons, etc.), and of course in spiritual matters (priest goes in and he comes out). And with Jesus we come and we go. We have to be a people who take time out to enter IN, and then we have to take time to go OUT!
One of the things that we’ve missed, that’s still living from an Old Testament view is the Sabbath rest. Last week, I attended a meeting where the man who was speaking did so from his past experience of having a mental-spiritual breakdown due to NOT observing the Sabbath rest. So, he was encouraging people to take a day off.
If you want, why not?
But, that misses the New Testament point. The Sabbath rest is no longer a DAY of the week, it’s a PERSON. Can you say Jesus the Christ? Can you say contemplation and action, action and contemplation? Can you say inhale and exhale? Can you say contemplation-meditation?
Did Jesus take Sunday off? Maybe Saturday?
Did He heal on the Sabbath?
Every day. Every day we are to take time for prayer, meditation, or contemplation. It’s the inhaling of the Spirit of God. Inhaling gives us our marching orders. Inhaling is taking in the very breath of God. Inhaling is the healing of your entire body system. Inhaling is where you commune in peaceful bliss with the Spirit within and find strength to exhale.
Exhaling comes from your marching orders while inhaling: the DOING that comes out of the result of pure BEING. I can’t do that on one day off a week: an observance of a ritual that Jesus didn’t follow. I need to REST several times a day. I must inhale at least for a good half an hour to an hour, at least once during the day, and then I need to inhale for a few minutes throughout the day.
Who has taught you to INHALE?
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