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Holy Spirit Life Day 58
The word for "Spirit" in the Old Testament may also be translated as "breath." The breath of God was the divine way of giving human beings something of himself. "Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being."1 Derek Kidner writes "Breathed is warmly personal, with the face to face intimacy of a kiss and the significance that this was an act of giving as well as making, and self giving at that."2 Later, Jesus bestows the Holy Spirit by breathing on his disciples.
"The Holy Spirit gives life to those who inhabit the earth, the realm of God's creation." Thus says God, the Lord.... who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it."3 Martin Luther writes, "God breathes his Spirit into the body of man. And this Spirit is life and makes man alive. God creates other life through his Word; where man is concerned he gives of his life, of his Spirit. Man as man does not live without God's Spirit. To live as man means to live as body in Spirit. Escape from the body is escape from being man and escape from the spirit as well. Body is the existence form of spirit, as spirit is the existence form of body."4
1Genesis 2.7 2c.f. John 20.22 3Isaiah 42.5 4Martin Luther "Creation and Fall" p.34
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