Scripture gives us an account of how God made man. After God formed man, He had to bring man to life. In Genesis 2:7 scripture says, “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.” Man was made from the dust of the earth, but he was brought to life with something that was Life.
Dust and dirt—we probably all understand what these are. But what exactly is that thing that God breathed into man that brought man to life? What is life? This is a difficult question to understand. But we must understand it because it is critical to having life itself.
Jesus later tells us something similar in John 10:10. He says, “The thief does not come except to steal, to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” Jesus is talking to the Pharisees about people who are His sheep.
His reference to the thief is to people whose purpose is to attack the life of the sheep. The thief wants to limit your life, but Jesus came so that you may have life abundantly. The Pharisees were thieves who wanted to keep life in people in bondage to their rules.
So, this is what life is. Life is the thing that awakens what is possible. Life does not bring death to life. Life is the thing that brings to life something that is intended to have life.
An ocean or a sea or a river without water would be nothing. Water is the thing that brings life to each of these. Water is what allows the oceans to thrive in abundance.
I used to try to live an abundant life, but I didn’t have the Life in me to live the way I wanted to live. I thought abundant life was about having much and getting even more. I was all wrong.
Jesus is the Life we need to live the abundant lives we all want to live. He teaches us to live a lot with what little we may have. So, don’t be like I was. If you want to live abundantly, get ahold of an abundant amount of the Life of Jesus.
If you want to live with the respect of others, learn to accept the life of respect Jesus offers you.
If you want to live with the love of others, learn to accept the life of Love Jesus offers you.
If you want to live a life of status and position, learn to accept the life of status and position in Jesus that He offers.
When God breathed this breath of Life into man, He was saying that man would come to life and that it would be possible for him to have an abundant life as he lived.
Now, listen carefully. God was thinking of you when He breathed life into Adam. Scripture referred to Him then as The Lord God. It is as if God was saying, I am going to breath life into Adam now. But later I am going to send Jesus to everyone else so that they too can have life and have it abundantly.
So, this is what life is. It is Jesus running around in each of us stirring us up to a way of living that reflects the abundance of the breath of Life that is in us. Life is crazy. It says to the thief who would steal or kill or destroy, “You cannot have what is the life of Jesus living in me.”
Jesus will never stop chasing after you with His offer of giving you Life more abundantly. Stop trying to live your life on your own. Let Him catch you so He can fill the river of your desires with His life of abundance which He offers everyone. This is what is Life.
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