Tis the season it seems. I was watching Fox and Friends recently and they were showcasing some fun toys for this year’s roundup and the spokesperson presenting the toys one by one comes to the Lego robotic toy and says, “…You can make it, you can breathe life into it.” I was exercising at the time, so I didn’t get to hear her words but I read them as the caption rolled across the screen. No one on the set seemed to blink or skip a beat and they just rolled on down to the next toy in line.
I knew right away where the words “breathe life” came from. This woman must have read them too, or at least heard them before.
Genesis 2:7 “Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” NIV
It has been awhile since I wrote pondering words, if you can call them that. I don’t want to miss this opportunity to reflect or for you to ponder over the breath of life.
I don’t think it should be too hard for us to look around any given day and see the things that God has created, it is too obvious; although it is easy to take them for granted. I think the most overlooked gift of God is His breath of life. Literally, we have air to breath and as long as we do so we continue to live. Air is the most important necessity for our bodies to stay alive. We can go without water for 3 days or so, but without air, we won’t last 5 minutes.
God created man from the dust of the earth. Imagine a man lying on the ground, still lifeless, because God had not yet breathed into man. God leaned over the man and breathed into his nostrils His breath. God’s breath gave man life. Man was not formed from a random act of nature that somehow began to breath. It was God who initiated, who directly and purposefully with His own hands created man and then gave that man a soul….life. The unique ability to think and reason and to imagine and to love; all the things that only man and woman can do. We have a soul. No other creation on earth has a soul. We are unique, we are God’s greatest creation on earth.
It is the evil in this world that the first man allowed into his heart, that same evil that all of us inherit, along with it comes pride. Pride is the original sin. It is too easy for mankind to fool itself into believing that we can create life. God has allowed us to use our imagination to explore new things, to discover more about God’s creation, and to build. I think it should be obvious that the only things that man can build are things made of the material that God has in His earth. We don’t create life. We cannot create life. Only God can create life. Science has tried to create life, and it just doesn’t happen. The devil himself cannot create life. God has the ultimate authority and the only ability to create life. It would be nice if mankind would get this memo. We can make plastic parts that piece together, and call them Legos. We can make motors and electronics out of the materials from earth and put them together along with a computer program so that in action, we call it robotics, it looks like it is alive. It is not life.
I think it is a serious mistake to play with the words, “you can make it” and “breathe life”; and to use them together is just plain blasphemy. It isn’t my goal to shame anyone, or to put myself on a pedestal, or to sound like an overzealous preacher. I just observe the little nuances in our world that smack of ever leaning toward a world closer to hell than heaven. A bunch of baby steps will lead to a stride further from God. Christians know the outcome. We just want to help as many people see the world as it is and hopefully they make the decision to take the hand of Jesus Christ, our only hope.
Just remember, when you are helping your kids build that Lego robot, it’s just a toy. Merry Christmas!
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