The Breath of God

All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work (2 Tim.3:16)

Many nations will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob.  He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in His paths." 
       The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem (Micah 4:2).

Why does "Salvation come from the Jews" except that they "ascended the mountain of the Lord?"  They worshipped the true God, and He spoke to them.  Worship is indispensable to hearing the voice of God.  It is clear that Scripture is used by God for teaching us His ways, for training us in truth and righteousness; that, not only was it originally "God-breathed," but it continues to be God-breathed in those who "ascend the mountain of the Lord."

Jesus said, "No man can come to me unless the Father draw him."  God is still drawing men to His Word, His teaching, His truth, His way.  He is still breathing His Spirit into the hearts and minds of men:  Then He opened their minds to understand the words [He spoke].

If we want to receive the very words of God, they still must be received Spirit to spirit, from the very heart, mind, and breath of God Himself.  Nothing else will do.  If we do not first "ascend the mountain" of the Lord [to worship Him], we cannot hear His words of spirit and of truth.  If God is not "breathing" into us, we cannot receive His words to us.  Like Adam formed from the dust of the earth, they are there, but they are not alive to us.

When the breath of God blows into us, it blows away all that is not God, all of our false gods and pre-conceived ideas of God.  Nicodemus approached the "mountain of the Lord" when he came to Jesus at night, and Jesus clearly told him that without the Spirit, he could not even see the kingdom of God.  I believe that Nicodemus was experiencing at that moment the breath of God, the Spirit moving within him, and Jesus' words were explaining/ revealing to him what he was feeling.

Like Nicodemus, let us come to Jesus, ascend the mountain of the Lord, that we might receive from Him the very words of God:

This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel...declares the Lord.

I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.  I will be their God,

and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor or a man his brother,

saying, "Know the Lord," because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,

declares the Lord   (Jer. 31:33-34).