L-I-F-E, LIFE!
LIFE! The word itself seems filled with energy. Just thinking about it invigorates. But what is this thing we call Life? Surely, it is a mystery. If you ask a child how we can tell something is alive they will say something like, “it moves.” or “ it can grow”. But many things in nature appear to be alive and yet are not: leaves can move with the wind, crystals can grow and change shape. But somehow we can eventually tell , can't we, when something is truly alive. How? Often by how it (yes) moves, grows and interacts with what's around it. But isn't there something deeper to every living being? A (bear with me) life force that animates it and is its essence?
The Word says “in Him was life...”. The One through Whom the Father created all life is life, in its essence. True life is both a reflection and an embodiment of who He is. No wonder Life is something mysterious: “for who has known the mind of the Lord...”. We cannot know or understand everything about life, anymore than we can know all about Him.
Yet life itself is a never-ending quest to receive more life! Life has its paths and ways (Acts 2:28) and He is ever willing to show them to us. What a joy! Are you in Him?! Truly? He is life. There is no true life apart from life in Him. Why waste a moment trying to find life from some where other than its only source?! Come to Him. Come to Life!
