Psalm 104 is a beautiful song about the Lord our God as Creator. From Him all life is breathed. The CSB uses the word breath here. Other translations use the word spirit. The actual Hebrew word is, rûaḥ, and means Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son.
Today we look to our Creator and are renewed by His mercies by acknowledging Him as Creator. When God speaks, His Spirit goes forth, and the earth is renewed. God sends His Spirit and the snow melts, the animals come out of hibernation, and the grass begins to grow. In this way, He guides every season and He sustains every life.
Since the beginning, God’s creating “breath” has not diminished. Paul compares God’s Word in Genesis, to God’s Word now. God spoke into darkness and nothingness and there came a miraculous light. Today, God speaks into the darkness of our sinful lives and there comes a miraculous light, the light of Spirit-given faith!
For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:6
The connection between God’s Breath, creation, and our re-creation by the Spirit is underlines in John 20:22.
After saying this, he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
John 20:22
Jesus breathes on His disciples and tells them to receive the Holy Spirit. The Father and Son continue to send us the Spirit to renew us inwardly day by day. By God’s breath were all created and by His breath we are recreated. Our transformation from the old to new is God breathing new life into us each day, but are we allowing Him to breath that new life into us?
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