THE HUMANITY OF GOD - HIS NOSE

We all know that our nose is the way we breathe.

As we inhale and exhale, we push out all the bad that’s in us, breathing is cleansing. So, when life throws us a challenge, we just need to remember to stop and breathe, and cleanse our environment of all toxicants.

One of the beautiful things about breathing is that you don’t even have to think about it. It is an involuntary action.

When we were but thoughtless little babies, long before we had or knew what a problem was, we just simply breathed. Having no care in the world.

Breathing is essential to living. Just like when we were those babies, we didn’t live until we breathed. Just like Adam, he didn’t live until he breathed.

Our nose is essential to breathing and so it is essential to life. It’s how life began.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7

God deeply inhaled spirit and life, filling his lungs full, brought forth that creative energy through his septum and nostrils and blew that into the nose of man and thus we were born. AMAZING!

One simple ordinary act by God, breathing, was how mankind was created.

Though God is spirit, Scripture quite often speaks of Him in human terms called anthropomorphisms. By attributing these human characteristics to God, we can better understand this omnipotent Being who created us in His image and desires a very personal and intimate relationship with us.

Nothing was more personal than when God used His Nose to blow into our nose the Breath of Life. He could have used the North, South or East Wind, or some mighty gust of air, or any other thing he wanted, yet he chose to touch us nose to nose. Like a parent rubbing noses with their newborn. How personal, how intimate, how loving!

By doing this, God performed one of the most human of all actions that we do every day, he simply breathed through his nose. Inhale and Exhale.

Previously we’ve been discussing the Humanity of God. Looking at  His Ears, His Mind, and His Face. Feel free to go back and review any of these as you like.

In today’s talk, we will be considering the Humanity of God in His Nose.

From a human perspective, our nose is a prominent factor in our appearance.  Noses can be large or small, wide, or thin, straight, or crooked, pointed, broken, curved or whatever. Our nose can give an indication to our background, history, ancestry, character, or possibly our personality traits.  But a nose is much more than just a facial feature, used to tell where we have come from, it also provides very important functions that affect our quality of life.  

Many believe the nose is only a means of breathing and smelling. But it is much more than that. Our nose knows how to filter air, how to make your voice sound good or bad, how to add moisture to dry air, how to make cold air warm, how to bring back memories, and even how to tell the difference between good and bad food. Because the nose effects taste, if you can’t smell it then you can’t taste tit. And as for the breathing part, it is no small matter as over 20,000 liters of air pass through our nose in a 24-hour period of time, which is equivalent to 5,283 gallons. We can smell more than 1 trillion scents, because of the 12 million sensors we have in our nose. Our nose is even partly responsible for helping us fall in love. Yep, every time you fell in love was because of your nose. I’ll prove it with one word, pheromones.  Sally, Fred, Calanty, Shakira, or whatever your boo’s name was, smelled like love. God even blessed the gunk in our nose that we call boogers, by allowing them to protect us from all sorts of viruses and diseased particles that are floating in the environment that we breath every day. Boogers are the residual accumulation of all that in the form of mucus. Having a nose is a true sign that God really does love us.

Well, what about the nose of God? I’m not sure if God has boogers or not, but if he does, I’m sure they are divinely appointed. However, I can share with you some of the things that the Bible does say about the nose of God. You know how when some people get angry and their nose flares, well so does Gods.

At the blast of your nostrils the water piled up; the floods stood up in a heap” Ex. 15:8

Gods nostrils flared and blew so hard that he destroyed the enemies who were chasing the children of Israel.

God’s nose can also smell. He loves the sweet smell of our prayers. In other words, God loves it when we talk to him.

They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God Phil. 4:18

Gods nose loves the smell of our thankfulness.  He loves it when we give him praise and thanksgiving for all that he has done for us. He appreciates it when others tell him how much he means to them, just like us.

The most important thing the Nose of God did was give us life.

the Lord God formed man and “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.” Genesis 2:7.

The breath of God gives our life perspective and purpose.

Our lives, everything we strive to do, everything we work for, is because of a single breath from God.  

In return for that breath, the best thing we can hope to do, and the one thing that will bring us the most satisfaction, joy, and fulfillment is to demonstrate and share our life with the one who breathed on us—God himself. 

Paul wrote this “all scripture is breathed out by God” (2 Timothy 3:16).

This remarkable phrase about the breath of God provides us a look into the intimate relationship between God, humankind, and His Word. We are all connected.

Our smell attracts God to us. He’s in love with us.

               This is a Thompson Truth