The last breath of the day

While I was hunting in South Carolina around 15 years ago I experienced something that touched me deeply.  I had hunted in the Chester area for 10 or 15 years prior and had never known the significance of this event.  It was on a late fall afternoon while I was up in a portable tree stand on a high ridge overlooking a valley.  The sun had already past the tree tops and had broken the horizon, the light had started to dim.  Suddenly I felt a breeze that went away from me and then in a second or two the breeze came back straight into my face.  It was strange it was like inhaling and exhaling.  I hunted that ridge many times and experienced it again and again even the next year.  In did not relate it to anything until I was praying as I did while sitting in the woods.  It was a time to have everything off my mind and was able to get close to God.  I felt the wind pull away and then return back to my face.  The woods then got dead silent and not even a leaf or piece of broom sage was moving.  You could feel the coolness of the evening setting in as the sky started to dim.  I asked God what this was because I knew in my Spirit it had some significance.  God spoke to me through his Holy Spirit and he said “this is the last breath of the day”.  It was the end of that day that could not be revived or resurrected.  In Jewish lore and many others the day begins at the break of day, sunrise and ends at sunset.  God was revealing to me the importance of each and every day.  After coming close to death several times I know the value of life and tried not to waste it.  I am sad to say prior to this time usually most of my days were self-gratifying and not in service.

What have you done with the days that God gave to you?  How did you use them to glorify him, share his love and his saving Grace?  How did you share his salvation message with others?  I think of the opportunities I missed, days and years I have wasted since I came to know Jesus Christ as my savior.  This was not to chide myself but to give me a new starting place.  We all get tied up in our everyday life and miss the still small voice that can so richly bless us and guide us through his service to fulfill his perfect will and achieve his glorious plan for us and all of mankind.  When you have an interest you cherish, a hobby or your children your grandchildren or your spouse.  You take every chance you can to share the joy these bring to you with others.  The gifts God has blessed us with are wonderful but we are fearful in sharing our most valuable and shareable experiences, even our salvation testimony.  These may be the greatest life changing messages you will ever share.  Do not let another day pass away without listening for that still quite voice, make yourself open to God’s will and the guidance of the Holy Spirit.  I have read that “love has no value until it is given away” something hidden away and never openly displayed or shared has not real value.  When each and every one of us is gone with these unshared treasures they are lost forever.  God shares treasures with us every day in the beauty of his creation physical, natural most of all spiritual.

David J. Little 1-15-2015