Today I sat outside for only 20 minutes in 60* weather. I use to love soaking in the sun for hours in much warmer weather. I only lasted 20 minutes, because my breathing is more shallow, and I felt like I was inhaling heat. Also my metabolism is messed up and I get overheated more easily now. (I now always use a fan and prefer cooler weather and air conditioning.)  I was thinking that all goodness comes from God (Jms 1:17), and especially our breath, (Gen 2:7, Job 33:4) and I thought how awful it would be, to be separated from God’s gift of goodness of not being able to breathe. As a believer in Christ, when we stop breathing in this life, we have a confident assurance that we will instantly be present with the Lord (2 Cor 5:8) non believers have no such hope. In Lk 16:23-24 the rich man, while in hell, asked Abraham to send for Lazarus, so he could dip the tip of his finger in water, to cool his tongue, for he was tormented in flames, but the rich man was told that his request would be denied, because there was a fixed gulf between heaven and hell.

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