Breathing in God

Today was a pretty darn hot day. Add humidity and these two things are affecting my ability to have a restful Sunday evening. The evening breeze is some sort of a welcome thing, except that it is merely pushing around hot and humid air. I would probably say the same thing when this happens in August, as it usually does, not in May. (The sun is going down as I type, so the temperature is cooling.) Nonetheless, I find that it connects a spiritual truth in my go-all-over-the-place mind.

If you have ever experienced hot and humid days without much air movement, you would know the feeling of being so surrounded that you almost feel like you are suffocating in the humidity. I guess that is kind of what God's immanence is like, minus the suffocating part.

I have experienced periods of time when God's presence is so real and so surrounds me that it feels as though I am breathing in Him. There is no place to go where He is not, even when we are unaware of Him.

Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one. He would reveal not only that He is, but what He is as well... Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us.

-- from "Tozer on the Almighty God", 2 May

Indeed that the Almighty God wants to be known by us! And He places Himself around us all the time everyday just so that we can find and know Him when we try. If I would just be more conscious of breathing in God every day of my life!