It is interesting to consider what life really is. There are requirements for life, such as a beating heart, lungs that exchange air, a digestive system that converts food to energy and a brain that functions. But these requirements for life only mean that we are alive. What are we alive to do? What are we alive for? By its nature, biological life begins at conception, makes its entrance at birth, matures to adulthood, fades with advanced age, and ends when the required functions cease. Is that all there is...just the fact of being alive? Similarly, for the Christian, we have been born again to spiritual life when we understood and received God's love expressed in the life, death and life again of Jesus, His Son. This is the requirement for eternal life to begin...but what are we alive for? What is life?
I think the answer is that just as we found eternal life when we found Jesus...we find leternal iving as we focus on Jesus.
John 5:26 For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself,
It is in coming to Jesus that we not only find life...we experience life!
John 5:39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. 40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.
Relating closely with Jesus is like eating and drinking:
John 6:35 And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.
There is eternal life...and there is eternal living. Jesus has come to us that we might come to Him. He lives in our midst that we might live in the midst of Him. It is interesting to consider what it means to truly live!
blessings,
Rob Smith
No comments:
Post a Comment