Job 34:14-15
"If He should set His heart on it, if He should gather to Himself His Spirit and His breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust."
Talk about a direct contradiction to today's theories concerning man. According to Biblical truth, we are not just part of the evolutionary chain, somehow ordained to continuously be improving through the means of natural selection over millions of years.
While Elihu had his theology of suffering wrong, and even heard about it from God, there is certainly nothing wrong with his theology concerning man. All of humanity exists and remains in existence only by the Spirit's touch. Through the Spirit's breath upon us, God gives and sustains life by his life.
One of the puzzles concerning the origin of man is trying to figure out where all this energy comes from which makes up life. Even the most fantastic of theories, to include the Big Bang, don't tell us where energy comes from. Even more importantly, where does life come from?
Molecular biologists can only explain in general how the energy is used by our cells for our well-being. Doctors make it their profession to manipulate the life that is already there to bring about bodily healing. Philosophers pontificate about the importance of life, but when all is said and done, no one can explain life's origin and sustainment.
That's because life can only be explained by the existence of God and His Spirit which gives life. Literally, God's breath becomes our breath. God's life is given for our life.
This truth concerning physical life reminds us the spiritual life which God yearns to give. While physical life is given by grace to all, spiritual life only comes to those who come to faith in Jesus Christ.
LORD JESUS
Lord, I thank you for the life giving breath you give to animals and humanity. Thank you for touching us in this way and then offering a new life in Christ. Amen.
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