Breathe

Take a deep breath. No, really. Go ahead. In.... Out...

Do it one more time.

Now what would it look like if for one brief moment all of creation used its breath to praise the one true and living God? That too unlikely to even imagine? 

OK. What if everyone in your state took one great big breath at noon tomorrow and then breathed out something that would honor our Father?

Still too far outside the box? Then image this then: every person in your church, for one moment, put aside all preoccupation, all evaluation, all self-interest, all conflict, and breathed in air, then breathed out praise. 

Can you imagine what God would receive in that moment? How it would make our Father feel?

I can't either. But I'm sure it would be splendid.

Make it just a bit more tangible. What if everyone in your church was able to do that this Sunday? When you gather on Sunday and take in that big breath right before the opening line of a song--whether Holy, Holy, Holy or Holy Is the Lord or anything else? 

Imagine.

But let's go a step further. What would that mean for us, the worshipers? What might it do for the Kingdom? What impact could that have on our world?

Oh, the mysteries of God! 

"Let everything that breathes praise the Lord." Psalm 150

Sort of gives a different perspective for the classic worship song, "Breathe" eh?