Take Your Oxygen First

This saying comes from the airline industry in relation to cabin pressure being compromised and the oxygen masks being activated. They instruct you to put on your oxygen mask before trying to help those around you. It makes sense that if you can breath, you’ll be able to function better. Without oxygen you would die.

The same principal can be applied to our lives and especially our Christian walk. We, as women, daughters, wives, mothers, etc, must take our oxygen first before we can be effective in those roles.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10


We were created by a God who loves us and wants us to have an abundant (richly supplied, plenty, full) life here on this earth. I wonder how many of us would say we have a richly supplied life, full of plenty. That’s because we are not fully connected to the source of that life, Jesus.

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6

We have to have a relationship with Jesus that is second nature, just like breathing. That comes the same as with any other relationship, you must spend time with Him (prayer, study, etc). And before long you'll notice that your other relationships are changing, as you breathe deeply from the source.
TAKE YOUR OXYGEN FIRST!