Needtobreathe

My favorite band is Needtobreathe. There love for Jesus and music is evident in a lot of their songs. Their songs just make me happy. I was talking with my fellow intern Kramer, who also shares in this love for Needtobreathe and he asked me one day if I had heard how they got that band name. He followed by telling me this story...

When Bear Rinehart(lead singer) was 18 years old he went to his father(who is a pastor) and asked him, "Dad when do you know when you need got enough?" His father took him down to the water by their house and had Bear go in with him. He then grabbed Bear by the neck and held him under the water. Just when Bear was about to drown he brought his son out of the water and he said, "When you need God as much as you need to breathe, that's when you know you need him enough." Pretty crazy cool way to get a band name. I would speculate that Bear's experience with his father is something that has changed his life forever because I know when I think about it gets me thinking of how much I want to know God. Am I wanting Him enough? Am I wanting Him as much as I need to live? That He is my substance to life. I want to live this way. I want to breathe in His Spirit. I want to be reminded that every breath is for Him. It isn't my own.

But, as it is written,

"What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him"—

these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 1 Corinthians 2:9-10

When I read this verse I knew I was reading something that was thought provoking. Through this passage I see how the Holy Spirit POWER is something that we can't even imagine. This passage talks about the Love of God and how God himself reveals the depth through His Holy Spirit. If that doesn't motivate you to find the Holy Spirit yourself then I don't know why you are wasting your time with the whole Christian thing. We are always trying to pin down how to define God's love and how it works. NEWS FLASH---- we aren't supposed to totally figure it out on our own. That is what the Holy Spirit is doing within us. Just reread that verse. It is sooooo deep I just have to keep reading it over and and over and I still don't totally comprehend the power and magnitude of this sentence. All I can do is seek the Holy Spirit. I'll let Him reveal to me in His time.

Came down with a bit of a fever today.. Pray for healing so I can serve up to what God wants me to do.