Paul's handkerchiefs : Tapping into God's presence and power within us
The fact that we live is the evident that the life of God is within us. In Gen 2:7 when God made the first man Adam, he breathed into his nostril the breath of life, and man became a living being. The word of God in Acts 17:25 mentioned again that God gives to all life, breath. The breath of God is in us. We carry the life of God within us. It is well described in Acts 17:28 that in Him we live and move and have our being, for apart from Him we are nothing and we will not even have existed. Therefore God is not as far away as we have often imagined it to be and that we have to try very hard to find Him and reach Him. He is so near and so within our reach. For He is living in each and every one of us. The fact that we carry the breath of God, the life of God is flowing through us. Our very breath is the breath of God. 1 Cor 6:19 is a powerful verse to confirm this, that our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. God's life is in us and God lives in us. When we can gra...