Suggested Reading: John 17:1-5
Life
is more than our heartbeat and our brainwaves. Life is more than just
continuing to breathe and think and move. Real life is more than just existing.
All people exist but not all people truly live.
Many
of us settle for mere existence. Our culture teaches us that life is what we
own. It tells us that he who dies with the most toys wins. The reality is that
he who dies with the most toys still dies, and his toys are useless to him. But
there is another way, a way to live and never die.
Jesus
defined real life, the eternal kind of life, as knowing God. The moment we come
to know God, we become spiritually alive; we receive the Holy Spirit, and
become partakers of the divine nature. When this happens, we have embarked on
the journey of becoming who we really are. We begin to live out our mandate to
be the image of God, little representatives of Christ, each expressing our
individual gifts and unique facets of the glory of God. Our core comes alive,
and we become ever more ourselves as we learn to live and never die, to live
the eternal kind of life.
When
the baby Jesus breathed His first earthly breath, life came to live among us.
Jesus Himself was and is the way, the truth, and the life. He is life made
visible to us. He is the source and essence of life. He lived life to the full,
showing us what the abundant and full life can look like. It wasn’t a life of
material riches, but it was a rich life. He walked our dusty roads, breathed
our air, and ate our food. He worked and paid taxes and lived a fully human
life, a life fully alive.
He
is our model, our older brother, the firstborn in our family. Through His life,
death, and resurrection, He made a way for us to follow in His footsteps. We
can know God and have real life. Through His life we find life.
Life
was born at Christmas.
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Questions:
Have
you entered into the eternal kind of life with Jesus?
How
can you nurture this life?
How
can you get to know Jesus better today?
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