We Need The Air

Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you? Psalm 85.6.

Every living thing needs constant regeneration and restoration for its growth. If not, it will soon die. Our Creator and Sustainer God has designed all living organisms to regenerate and be revived continuously. In order to steadily grow and be renewed, everything needs a constant supply of essential things like food, air and water! It is so with us human beings too!

Do you know that our spiritual life is also very much like our physical life? It needs to be constantly revived and restored! It is your responsibility and mine to take care of our souls, just as we are to take care of our bodies. Believe me, just as our bodies will die if not fed, our souls also will surely die if not fed! Today, many souls are dying spiritually due to starvation, while their bodies are fattened by over-feeding!

Your soul and mine needs ‘spiritual food, water and air’ to be renewed and revived. The apostle Paul teaches us that when we are spiritual babes we may feed on ‘milk’, but as we grow, we need to consume ‘strong meat’. ‘Spiritual milk and meat’ for the soul come only from the Word of God.

Dear believer, are you feeding yourself daily on God’s Word? Do you make time to read and meditate on the Word that feeds your soul and revives it. Job said, “God’s Word is my daily bread!’ (Job 23.16). Many are those who never get their milk or meat from the Bible and are not revived daily because they do not make the time to read and meditate on it! That is why many in our churches are as good as dead spiritually – never growing, producing fruit or reproducing!

You cannot grow without ‘air’ too, dear believer! Prayer to God is often compared to the air we breathe physically. You need to spend time in ‘prayer to God each morning, evening and at noon; it will keep you alive and well and also in tune with God!’ The Bible goes further and exhorts you and I to ‘pray always in the Spirit’ (Eph 6.18). In every version of the Bible, the word ‘Spirit’ begins with the ‘capital letter S’. It means the Holy Spirit. If you do not know how to ‘pray in the Spirit’, ‘ask the Holy Spirit to teach you to pray!’ He will put words in your mouth. How else could the Spirit intercede through you? “The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express”, God promises (Rom 8.26).

Our souls need ‘the Living Water’ – the Spirit of the Living God! Let us thank God not only for the gift of His Son Jesus Christ but also His Holy Spirit to abide in us always! But have you ‘received the Spirit’ consciously like you did Jesus so that you know the Spirit is in you and works in you?’ Friends, it is not ‘doctrine or theology but practical Christianity’ that we need! The apostle Paul says, “You be continually filled with the Spirit” (Eph 5.19). Only Jesus can fill you so! Remember Jesus pleaded in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him" (Jn 7.37,38). He will quench your thirst and fill you to the overflow!

Pray with me: Dear Lord, I will make time daily to meditate on Your Word and to pray. I come to You! Keep me filled to the full by Your Spirit. Let my whole being be filled with Living Water that revives and satisfies my soul and overflows to others. Amen”.