Let everything that has breath praise the Lord…
Psalm 150:6 NIV
Breathing Praise
According to the Canadian Lung Association, “Your left and right lungs aren’t exactly the same. The lung on the left side of your body is divided into two lobes. The lung on your right side is divided into three. The left lung is also slightly smaller, allowing room for your heart. Lungs contain approximately 2,400 kilometres of airways and 300 to 500 million air sacs (alveoli). If stretched out, the total surface area of lungs would be about the same size as half a tennis court.”
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Breathing is what gives life. From the first breath a baby takes until the last one, hopefully many years later, breath gives life. That is the case for every member of the animal kingdom, as well as human beings. Lungs, or gills, play a vital role in all of life. Which makes what King David says in the very last verse in the book of Psalms so amazing. Psalm 150:6 says, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.” The Psalmist gives permission to every living thing to praise the Lord. While human beings do so through the words we say, the songs we sing and the way we live our lives, everything that has breath can praise the Lord just by being who God created them to be and do what God created the to do. We see so clearly, in everything that has breath, the creative genius of our Creator. We see His beauty in the myriad of colours and the variety of sounds that fill the natural world. These all proclaim praise to the One who created them. Let’s take time today, breathing one, to praise the Lord.
These have been words from the heart.
Bob Beasley