YHWH "I am that I am"

I came across this post today and I have to share it with you because it is so good it really blessed my heart.  This post was originally written by Sandra Thurman. This is what it said.  There was a moment when Moses had the nerve to ask God what His name is.  God was gracious enough to answer and the name He gave is recorded in the original Hebrew as YHWH.  Over time we have added an A and an E in there to get YAHWEH, probably because we have a preference for vowels, but scholars and Rabbis have noted that the letters YHWH represent breathing sounds or aspirated consonants when pronounced without intervening vowels it actually sounds like breathing. Y H for inhale and W H for exhaling.

So a baby’s first cry, his first breath speaks the name of God.  A deep sigh calls his name or a grown or gasp that is too heavy for mere words.  Even an atheist would speak His name unaware that their very breath is giving that constant acknowledgment to God.  Likewise a person when they leave this Earth with their very last breathe when God’s name is no longer filing their lungs.  So when I can’t utter anything else, my cry is calling out His name, being alive means that I am speaking His name constantly.  Is it heard the loudest when I’m the quietest? In sadness we breath heavy sighs.  In joy our lungs feel almost like they could burst.  In fear we hold our breath and have to be told to breathe slowly to help us calm down.  

When we’re about to do something hard we take a deep breath to find our courage.  When I think about it,  breathing is giving Him praise.  Even in the hardest moments of our lives.  This is so beautiful and it fills me with emotion every time I grasp with the thought - God chose to give Himself a name that we can’t even help but speak every moment that we’re alive.  All of us always everywhere walking, sleeping, breathing with the name of God always on our lips.  How beautiful is that, His breath fills our lungs, His name is in our lungs.  Let everything that has breath praise the Lord amen.

Spoken by @withstrengthanddignity