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WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL: LIFE AND LIVING

                                                                                                                               11 MARCH 2017

For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. John 17:2-3

Under normal circumstances nobody wants to die. We don’t want to depart from this world without having to spend quite some time in it. Ever lost someone close before? It hurts so much we never want to experience that feeling of pain that aches from the heart, from the inside out. But more closely, what does it mean to live? What is life? Both are questions that everyone must discover as God intends it. If we don’t know what life or living means we can barely understand what death is about. Have you seen laptops with damaged battery or none at all? What happens when it is disconnected from the power source? It goes off immediately because no alternative power source. God himself is LIFE and we know because everything created are products of life. Energy can be transferred or harnessed because it exists, creation wouldn’t exist too except life was already existent. 

God is LIFE and He created everything, nature included. Everything God touches produces life and anything outside of him automatically dies, slowly it wilts and fades away. Death is a natural condition outside of God. Creation is subject to die because the first man who took charge of it went out of God’s presence and introduced death to everything under his control. God didn’t pronounce death upon creation but man. Humans don’t die because they were merely hit by a car or fall sick, but because we are subject to death, else Superheroes Comics would not be fictional at all. Just like a laptop without battery when disconnected from the power source ultimately goes off, a world disconnected from God is subject to die. God only stepped in and saved us from imminent death when Jesus plugged us back to the power source (God).

Living on the other hand is the originally planned lifestyle for us by God. It is true that you can have LIFE and not be LIVING. In the New Testament Jesus tells us what living is all about in Matthew 5. It is everything contrary to human’s selfish living. For example, a man walking around hating on people is not living but a dead man walking. Jesus showed humanity what living is all about; forgiving your offenders, blessing those who curse you, loving haters and feeding those who wouldn’t part with a nickel from their pockets etc. Now we know these are standards beyond our human capacity but it becomes a natural lifestyle of those who have received LIFE from God through Jesus Christ and who are LIVING daily according to His Spirit in them. Do you have LIFE and are you LIVING? Don’t walk around without being plugged to your life source.

One Week Reading Plan

TODAY                 John 1:3-14
SUNDAY               Psalm 50:16-22
MONDAY             1John 3:11-17
TUESDAY            Psalm 36:7-10
WEDNESDAY     Galatians 2:19-20
THURSDAY         Isaiah 2:3-5
FRIDAY                John 8:10-15
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