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This post is another example of several things...from different areas/aspects of my life...no doubt stored in different "folders" in my brain suddenly coming together...with an almost magnetic like force to form an idea for a blog post. I think I mentioned this a few days ago.
A week or so ago, Keith emailed me to tell me his views on the last verse in Psalm 150...what is usually translated "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord." He thought perhaps the word "let" might not actually belong in the text if one was faithful to what the original language conveyed. Sure enough...after checking in a literal translation (Young's) and a Hebrew Lexicon (Interlinear Analyzer 2 at Scripture 4 All) we discovered that the verse should actually read more along the lines of,
Everything that has breath praises the Lord.
In an email he wrote to our friend Roy, he said:
In addition much can be added about the act of breathing in Scripture. God breathed into man and he became a living soul. It has been said that when God exhales we must inhale. I also think that the Hebrew word Ruach means spirit as well as wind and breath and air. And in saying that, if I am not mistaken it is the same word that is translated as "cool" as God walked with Adam in the "cool" of the day.
To which our friend Roy replied:
I wonder also if it is not a prophetic picture? We have the example of an entire orchestra here.....those that play all forms of instruments each instructed to praise the Lord. It would seem ALL instruments are instructed to praise. So. if all mankind is the orchestra is there a day ahead when all will praise Him in benevolence, mercy and all other wonderful aspects of kindness, love and goodness? We know all man's works praise the Lord now though hard to understand those that cause such misery at the present time. But, does this Psalm, on one level, point to that day when all will turn their own "music" (that higher life that is within them by His power) toward Him openly and freely, unhindered?
So many depths and variances of meaning!
Again then, if we apply the Psalm's meaning inwardly on an individual basis is it not necessary that the orchestra within each of us be subdued and coordinated to give off a harmonic music toward the Lord? My stringed instruments are not in unison with my wind instruments and such.....But, He is orchestrating the music within so that on a certain day and in brief blasts now the music harmonizes and comes together in Him. There shall be a day within when the last trumpet shall sound, that is, the last trumpet/ instrument shall come into harmony within me in Him. Then, He shall set me free to descend upon mankind with a shout, that is, He in me. And, even at that moment that beautiful music brought together in my heavens shall descend within me to the lowest parts of my earth gathering me together as it enables me to be a vessel to gather all around me together this last trump setting free the orchestra of His life within raising me to the heavens and gathering all around me in Him and by His excellent grace! We are blessed to see and experience those glimpses now......
More on this in my next post....
2 comments:
Ooh, I didn't know that about the "cool" of the day. That is just SO beautiful.
I think a lot about my breath. Doing meditation I breathe in and out the word "Maranatha." Doing yoga, I breathe into the spaces that are straining, and it somehow seems to help.
Good post :)
I've heard it said that we are not breathing...but rather we are being "breathed". If you think about it...at night when we are deep in sleep who is really doing the breathing?
I remember when the kids were little...babies...slipping into their rooms quietly (oh god don't wake them up!!!) and watching to see the ever so slight rising and falling of their little chests. Sometimes, touching them to be sure.
Just musing...
Cindi....
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