Air Comes With It

1 Corinthians 2:12 (New King James Version, NKJV).

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

We have an eight year old niece that is the daughter of my wife’s brother. She recently went shopping with my wife and wanted to buy some balloons that came with a small pump to inflate them. When she got up to the counter my wife gave her the money to pay for them. As the cashier rang them up she asked him, “Does the air come with this pump?”

Have you ever stopped for a moment and thought about all the things that we take for granted that God has freely given us? You more than likely have at some point. Life itself is the free gift of God. Everything that has life is of God. He was the source of life, and that life was the light for humanity (John 1:4 GODS WORD Translation, GWT). From the microscopic life forms to the giant Redwood trees and from ladybugs to giraffes; God gave life to it all. There is no life that He did not create; All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made (John 1:3 NKJV).

Aren’t you glad today that God does not charge us for the food He provides, the water He gives, and the very air we breathe? We pay people for access to it but they did not pay God for it. Compressed air can cost money but air itself is free. Take away air and living things die. If you have ever had breathing problems you can appreciate a deep breath but if you have never had issues then chances are you have taken each single breath for granted.

The cashier was stunned when our niece asked him if air came with the pump. He had never thought about it apparently. If you are ever asked that question you can now answer it confidently; yes, yes it does, and it is free!

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! (Psalm 150:6).