Life, and Not Death

You don’t gotta work at it. You don’t gotta try harder and harder. You don’t gotta put more, give more, strive more, dig more, study more, or even seek more. For Him to find you. For Him to love you. For Him to rescue you.

Uh uh. No way.

It’s not about what you must do. Not about more of you and your efforts and your diligence. Never.

It’s about the admitting that you can’t. And the crying out that it is so hard. So hard! It’s about the surrender of everything in you that wants to scream out, “Denial!”

Because life on your own is just that. So hard and impossible and so not true, so not life at all. Because it can’t be done. Never. Life alone cannot be done. Period.

But, love being poured out as life-blood to your very soul. That is life. The only way. The only possible, freeing, true and abundant life. Life being poured out, for you.

And it’s been done, for you.

Amen, it’s been done for you.

Christ’s life, given for you. So that you would never be alone. Because life can’t be done alone. God knows that. He didn’t create you for death. He created you for life. So He came, for you, to ensure you would have life. He came to give you life, to give you His very life. His life was given for you. His life was given to you.

At the Cross, where He gave up His spirit, for you. Where His act of love was the ultimate demonstration of love, all for you. So that you would receive life, His life.

It’s true, life is meant for you, right now, for you who would believe in and receive His act of love as being enough to cover you, enough to fill you, enough to give you. His life. Eternal life. Christ’s life. Here and now. For all who would receive Him, all who would believe in Him. Life, and not death.

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“But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” - John 1:12-13

“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!” - Romans 5:8-10 (NIV)