Best Breath

Those who suffer with asthma know firsthand how scary it is to need a good breath of air.  My Dustin works for an oxygen supply company, and routinely gets calls from patients who understand both the danger and fear of running out of oxygen.  On the other hand, there’s nothing quite like a deep breath of fresh air!

Hope can be defined in many ways; Octavius Winslow describes it as “oxygen of the soul.”  How many of us want to wake to a day without oxygen?  Well, we probably wouldn’t “wake” at all!  Surely, it’s a commodity we take for granted.  If you’ve ever fallen and lost your breath momentarily, you know the feeling of terror of no breath.  Paul write in Romans 15:13, “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.”  What a powerful sentence!  If indeed hope is the oxygen to the human soul, when Believers know Christ as the Supreme Source for joy and peace, we will “abound in hope.”  The word “abound” in the Greek means to “exceed measure”; our “God of Hope” gives His joy and peace in measureless quantities [and ways]!  There is never a case of spiritual asthma – no, we can know breathing at its very best!