Life

Life.  Such a simple word.  A word loaded with complexity and meaning and yet so very simple. 

Life.  It is immediately recognizable and immediately evident when it is absent.  It is often taken for granted and overlooked, but its absence brings reminders of all of its glory.  Life. 

We fight for the right to life.  We consider it precious.  We want it and pursue keeping it at all costs.  Life.

I wonder if you have considered the enormous gift of life.  I say it is a gift because apart from the work of another you would not have it.  I am not here referring to your mother without whose work you also would not be here, but I am speaking more importantly of the life giving work of the Son of God.  Without his work none of us would have even the possibility of life.  We might breathe, we might work, we might exist, but we would be dead in our trespasses and sin apart from His glorious Life. 

And His Life he freely offers as a gift to all those who would believe that He is not only the Author of Life but that He gave His own Life to be a substitute for my own.  So that the Life I now live is not my own but lived by faith in Him!  The eternal Life that I receive as a free gift through the faith He enables starts now and continues for. . . you guessed it - eternity!  Life.  Never-ending Life.

And we owe it all to the man who was crucified.  Who died.  But death could not hold him.  Life cannot be undone in this ultimate sense.  Life can only continue.  So come to the fount of Living Water.  And Live.  Life.