Just A Breath Away

At first it lay there

Fashioned in the most beautiful way,

A perfect symmetrical creation

But, yet to see the light of day.

Nothing worked, it could not move

Though beautiful in every way,

A splendid sculpture was all it was

As before its creator it lay.

Any human sculptor would be satisfied

To have created such a masterpiece

But this Master sculptor was not through,

One thing remained before he ceased.

He was working towards this end

And his work was almost complete,

Just one day before the exhibition

And the viewers would be in for a treat.

Everything was in its place

The lighting, the plants, the animals,

And soon, very soon, this exhibition

Would be enjoyed by a couple people.

But to this beautiful molding before him

What else would he do?

What was the one thing that was to happen

Before this creator was though?

This piece had taken him the longest

It was his greatest workmanship,

Only one other piece would compare,

And they would view his exhibits.

Suddenly it stood up straight

No longer on the ground did it lay,

It was as though the one thing that remained

Was just a breath away.

The creator breathed into its nostrils

His wonderful breath of life

And with one of his ribs he fashioned

Another to become his wife.

She was similar in many ways

But different in more than a few

And for the man who gazed upon her,

She presented a romantic view.

“Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh,”

He was recorded to have said,

And while she was not to be dominated,

He was to become her head.

Just a breath away between sculpture and life

And only once it has been done,

By the Almighty Creator and no one else,

When the human race was begun.

A single divine breath was all it took

And the first man became a living soul,

And out of him the woman was made

And that made the two of them one whole.

Just one breath away that separates

Every human being from the mould,

And the moment that that breath departs

So does that human soul.

As it is in the physical domain

So it is in the spiritual,

It requires the breath of the Holy Spirit

To create a born-again believer.

Just a breath away, my friend,

And God’s eternal salvation can be yours,

No longer will you be dead in your sins

And this is what God’s Word assures.

    

I am reminded of the title of a song

“Breathe on me breath of God”,

The Creator Himself still provides that breath

In believers at home and abroad.

He is the one that gives to us life

In the physical as well as the spiritual,

And while on our earthly sojourn it is temporal,

For the born-again believer it is eternal.

Stewart Russell © May 2020