February
16
I
have come that they may have life (John 10:10 ISV).
If, on the one hand,
eternal Life operates to cut us off from our natural life as the basis of our
relationship with God, on the other hand, it is perfectly wonderful what is
done. It is "the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes." The
Lord even comes in as our physical life to the doing of more than would have
been possible to us at our best, and certainly far beyond the present
possibility, because He has made us know that as men we are nothing, even at
our best. Life does that. Life forces off one system and brings on another,
making room for it as it goes.
That, I believe is what
the Lord meant when He said, "I am come that they might have life, and
that they might have it more abundantly" (John
10:10). We have thought that just to mean that we are to have abundance of
exuberance. We are always asking for life more abundant that we might feel
wonderfully elated and overflowing and energetic. The Lord is preeminently
practical, and more abundant Life means that, having Life, you will find the
need of more to lead you a little further, and you will need it abundantly as
you go on, because that Life alone can bring you into the fullness. And it is
His will that there should be the full provision of Life unto the full end,
because the purpose is such an abundant purpose. The Life is commensurate with
the purpose.
This photograph is from a Facebook page called Live Life in Color.
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