March 11th, 2024
My friend Jim Marocco greets me every time with this question, “Mike, are you alive and praising Jesus?”
And I love this because it causes me to stop and remember, “Yes, yes I am.” Because not only are we alive physically by breathing, but we are also alive spiritually.
For once we were spiritually dead but came to life the moment we were born again. The old us has died, and the new man has risen. From the moment we became children of God, the very life of God filled us.
And God didn’t just “fix us up”; He made us NEW. A new creation. That’s something to praise God about!
Not only do we have the very life of God on the inside of us, that Zoe life which means the nature of God, but God promised us in John 10:10 that we would have life abundantly.
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” – John 10:10
That word “abundant” there means more, greater, and exceedingly. We are promised an exceedingly greater, and more than type of life, but that life is only found in God and through God.
We encounter this life when we live a life of surrender and submission unto Him. When we make Him the Lord of our life and not just our Savior.
When we walk in obedience to His ways, He blesses us and provides for us. It doesn’t matter what the enemy tries to steal, kill, or destroy, because our God has made an abundant provision for it already.
Today, give praise to God for the very life He has poured into us and the abundant life He has made way for us to walk in.
