Rarefied – your Lion Bite word for today

Like the rarefied air of a mountaintop that feels thin and makes it hard to breathe, the atmosphere of heaven is rarefied, so utterly different from the atmosphere that surrounds you on the earth in your day-to-day.  This is the air, the atmosphere that you are called to live in, to breathe.  I want to fill your lungs with the rarefied breath of heaven so that what exudes from you on the earth is the purity, the breath-taking clarity of the breath, the atmosphere of heaven. 

Will you allow me to remove from you the smoke and smog of earth, to clear the way that the atmosphere of the earth has clogged and blocked your capacity to release the purity of heaven?  Will you submit to my cleansing of your life so you can be a pure channel through which I can flow? 

1 John 1:7 (NIV)

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 

 2 Corinthians 7:1 (MSG)

With promises like this to pull us on, dear friends, let’s make a clean break with everything that defiles or distracts us, both within and without.  Let’s make our entire lives fit and holy temples for the worship of God.