Living the Life (1)

Are you living the life God has for you now?

Jesus is alive and the tomb is empty. Shouldn’t that reality make an eternal difference in your life now? For some reason, we put life off until another day. We believe that life is right around the corner. It seems as though that corner never comes. Life is delayed until the next opportunity or the next breakthrough. Maybe life will kick into gear when we get our driver’s license, or graduate, or get married, or get a home, or have kids, or land that perfect job, or send our kids off to college, or become grandparents, or retire. What’s the holdup? Why isn’t life happening now?

• “And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.” 1 John 5:11 (NIV)
• “He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.” 1 John 5:12 (NIV)

The eternal life God has given us in His Son is now. If you have the Son, then you have life now. God has taken the initiative to provide you the opportunity to receive the gift of eternal life. Once you place your faith in the completed work of Jesus on the cross, you become a child of God. In that moment, God graces you with the gift of eternal life. Eternal life for you does not begin after you die and go to heaven. Even if Jesus comes before you die and you get to experience the rapture, eternal life does not begin at that point. Eternal life for you begins the moment you trust Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior. Eternal life is now!

What are you doing with the life God has given you? Are you living it for His glory? Are you wasting it on careless living? Are you delaying it until another day, week, month, or year?

Choose to live the life now!   

Pursuing God,

Stephen Trammell
Executive Pastor