“First Breath After Coma”

Now, down to brass tacks…

I have been so thankful for all the love and support that you, my readers, have given me over the last several months of my life. Whether it has been your words, your donations, or your prayers, I hope you know how greatly you have impacted me and breathed new life into me at times I needed it most. 

A few weeks ago, my friend Luke Zappa sent me this piece that he wrote. It’s awesome, so I asked if I could pass it along to you, my captive audience (at least for a few more days). Happy reading!

(Listen to the link above while you read)

“First breath after a coma. Exuberance? Confusion? Thankfulness? Life. A first breath after a coma can be all three of these feelings. We’re so happy to be alive, we’re just over taken by joy. We can be confused as to why this coma happened, and why we were woken up, and we can be thankful for the life we still have. As people on this earth, we’re constantly in a coma, asleep, absent from God, because we let ourselves get caught up in our own lives, focused on what we can do to be happy, rich, popular, powerful, anything. We allow ourselves to march to our own beat. Our own sinful beat. And, well, your own beat, my own beat, puts us to sleep. It lulls us into a deep state of comatose that is impossible to be woken up from. 

 

EXCEPT, except, by God. By God’s love, His glory, His compassion, His righteousness, His justice. When we’re in a coma , and are stuck in the ways of the world, we’re missing God’s purpose for us, for His Kingdom. We’re closed off to His will, because we insist on “living” according to our own.  We’re missing what it feels like to be awake! Luckily for us, God’s grace, His sweet, amazing grace, wakes us up. When we allow God to open our eyes, ears, and hearts, and allow Him into our lives, our souls are awakened.

 

We feel exuberant and over joyed because we finally have our breath. A breath of true life in Christ. We feel confused as to why it’s happening to us, why the God of the universe would care about each insignificant individual? We find that answer through the sacrifice He made on the cross, dying for us. He was crucified for us so that we can be woken up from our coma (our sinful life) with new breath. He died because His love is beyond sufficient for us…Which leads to thankfulness.  We should be thankful for how loving He is to care enough to give us the life we don’t deserve. To give us the chance to be honored by serving Him.

 

The amazing thing about being in our coma, is that through Christ we can easily wake up from it. Allow Him to work in your life, and live in your heart. He WILL open our eyes from the coma we’re in, and give us our first breath into a new life, a life for Him. Let Him in.

 

Wake up.”