Life

Life is God imparting Himself to us.

Life

• What is life and where does it come from?
• Who is responsible for protecting it?
• Who determines the quality of life?
• Is there such a thing as a poor quality of life?
• What makes life in mankind unique?
• What is the meaning of Life?
• What Does it mean to live life to its fullest?
• What Is The Path To Life?

    The "germ" of life is programmed into the various elements of creation which include physical elements and the elements of the laws of that God has set up to sustain life.
    Evolutionary scientists have yet to understand what life is. They are coming to research with a skewed view on the origin of life, therefore, they can not understand it. Life has been dubbed as the "germ" that evades being found out, but does it really evade them or are they just blind to the truth because their skewed view?
    These evolutionary scientists think that if they were to take two atoms and smash them at high rates of speed, life would emerge. There is even talk of a "god particle" that they need to find to complete this experiment.

Let Us Look At Where Life Began

• Genesis 1

    God created the earth and it appeared empty and mysterious. This was before life as we know it entered the equation.
    "The Spirit Of God moved upon the face of the waters". The beginning of Life is a direct result of being energized by the Creator. He has endowed part of who He is to His creation giving it life.
    We could talk about the significance of life in animals, birds, and the rest of creation, but I want to focus on the significance of life in mankind.

• Genesis 1:26-27 
• Genesis 2:7

    As God created mankind He needed to breathe into man's being to bring him to life. A lot went on in that episode that we can only begin to understand.
    God, when He breathes on something, makes it become alive because He imparts His living self to the object. In this case, however, God puts part of His Spirit within man as a means of setting up mankind as a spiritual, relational, emotional as well as physical being. These are all characteristics of God that He imparted to mankind on that initial encounter.
    The Life is in The Blood!

What Makes The Life Of Man Unique?

The key aspects to human life are:

• Spiritual (a never dying soul) 
• Relational (able to correspond and show you care) 
• Emotional (able to laugh or cry) 
• Physical (we have a body that allows our spirit that is alive to move and physically serve others) 
• We are able to rationalize (think) 
• able to build things that have not yet existed 
• We have the capability of blessing or cursing others.

    There may be many more aspects to human life but this gives an idea of how unique we are in the creation of the world.

Who is responsible for Protecting Life?

Genesis 4:9
    While the sacredness of human life was established at creation, very soon afterward man chose to disregard life, even if it was the life of his brother. Cain killed his brother Abel and tried to cover up by asking whether he had to know where his brother was.
    Cain as a murderer that was unrepentant was driven from the presence of all other humans with the exception of his wife. It is evident that God values life and will not allow murderers to go on killing/ destroying life that God specifically imparted to the individual.
Genesis 9:5,6
    Mankind had become so debased that God sent a global flood to get rid of the debauchery, the murders, the infamous men who were destroying God's plans. After this flood, God gave instructions to those who were left, not to allow anything human or animal who had taken a human's life co-exist with mankind.
    God has given the responsibility of protecting life, whether adult, child/ unborn baby to the fellow humans that populate this sphere. Inasmuch as they are alive, they have been imparted with the very character of God and carry His seal upon their life.

Who determines the quality of life?

    There is a lot of talk these days about the quality of life, but I raise the question, Is there anything such as a poor quality of Life? The fact that God has imparted His life to us as His creation should speak for itself. We may be physically or mentally impaired but the quality of life never changes. God does not withhold His life from anyone nor does He desire that anyone should suffer alone.
    God has given life and He alone determines whether life as we know it should cease. We as humans have no business interfering with God's plan for life and must recognize that life does not end with death. Life is eternal and the carriage for the spirit gets transferred. Pain does not end with physical death so suicide will not alleviate your pain.
    Suicide is always sin... it is nothing else than a disbelief in the grace of God to be with you in what you are going through that is carried out in murdering yourself. God may be asking you to go through a hard time so you bring Him Glory through it. If what you are going through is His will, and it is, then to step out to avoid it is to step out of His will.

• Ecclesiastes 7:17

     Do not take your life in your own hands, to do so is to set yourself up as God and to destroy the life which God has placed within you.

Life In The New Birth

• Ephesians 2 
• John 1:11-13 
• John 3:1-8 
• Psalm 16:11

    Jesus Christ has paid the penalty for our choices of death with His on Blood, therefore our life hinges on His Blood and thus "The Life Is In The Blood".
    To deepen the mystery of life, God has called each one of us to partake in eternal life. Our souls and spirits were made for eternity, but to experience it to its fullest we must make choices that are conducive to the favored eternal destination.
    When a person is born of God, his spirit is conceived of the Holy Spirit producing a spirit that will change the behavior of the soul and body. To be born of God is to have God impart yet a bigger part of Himself to you, making you completely alive.
    To turn your back on Christ in you is to commit spiritual suicide and to commit spiritual suicide is to desecrate the life of God within you.
    When we have been born of the Spirit of God, our desires will be different. We will desire to continue to partake in the goodness of God, fashioning our lives after the likeness of Christ. Our desire to serve our flesh will be diminished as we become more like Jesus.
    As we live life to the fullest, we must steer clear of the besetting sins. Many people are alive physically but are spiritually dead. God has made us alive with His Spirit and to remain alive we must live in the Spirit.
    The besetting sins are often the sins that we are so naturally inclined to, such as: fear, anger, bitterness, covetousness and there are many others.
    God does not want us to wander around in the wilderness with no direction which would mean death, but willingly shows "the path of life" to all who desire to find it. In order to find this path to life we must first open our hearts to the Holy Spirit and then to God's revealed Word (the Bible). Sometimes God will reveal Himself to us in installments so we are not overwhelmed by the change of course (our hearts natural course is a path of death).
    Once we have opened ourselves to the Holy Spirit, He will begin to change our hearts creating in us a new heart that desires fellowship with God. The dark corners of our heart become alive and we will begin to exhibit the fruit of the Spirit (Love, Joy, Peace, Longsuffering, Gentleness, Meekness, Temperance, and Faith). Galatians 5:22,23
    In a word, the path to life is about opening your heart to the work of the Holy Spirit, which will eradicate the sinfulness of our human desires from our hearts and make us more like Christ.
    The fear of the Lord tendeth to life. Proverbs 9
Acts 2:28 He taught me the way of life.

Abundant Life

You can be alive, but not have abundant life or eternal life.
What does it mean to lose your life and then find it?
In order for you to live, you must first die. In order for someone else to live you must first die to yourself. I die to myself by killing my desires so I can serve others without payback.

    What does it mean to have more abundant life?
    First of all, you are physically alive; then as God speaks to you and you accept Him, you can live an abundant life. Many people even in their spiritual lives are just "alive", but abundant life is when you have died to yourself so Christ can can live in you and through you. Abundant life comes by obedience, faith, living intentionally for God, service to God and others, believing, being alert and watching out for the besetting death causing sins, etc...

    A person who is striving for abundant life is not self-serving, but serves selflessly. Jesus came to teach us the way of living abundantly.

Alive By The Spirit

• Romans 8:14
• Ephesians 2:1

    In order for us to have abundant life, we must first have been made spiritually alive by the Holy Spirit. We then need to live as He leads to receive this more abundant life.

    Abundant life is more than being saved, although being saved is part of it. Abundant life is hopeful, joyful, vibrant; for our dead spirit was rejuvenated by The Holy Spirit, thus bringing us to this place of freedom in our spirit.

    Our humanity gets in the way of abundant life at times causing us to dabble in the realm of death. To counteract this system of death we need to recognize it and fight against it.

• Ephesians 4:21-32

    Here are a few examples of the fruit of an abundant life:

• Ephesians 4:32 Kindness
• Ephesians 5:2 Love
• Ephesians 1:17-23 Hope
• Ephesians 4:2,3 Lowliness, Humility, meekness longsuffering, and forbearance
• Ephesians 5:9 Goodness, righteousness, and truth
• Ephesians 5:16 Redeeming the time
• Ephesians 5:19,20 Thankfulness
• Ephesians 5:21 submission to each other
• Ephesians 6:1-4 Godly homes
• Ephesians 6:5-9 Godly business practices
• Ephesians 6:10-20 Being prepared to fight 
• Ephesians 6:18 Being prayerful
• Philippians 2:1-18 Joy, unity of mind/spirit, obedience, blameless, harmless, without rebuke, holding up the word of life, sacrificial, faithful
• Philippians 4:7,8 Peace, thoughts are pure
• Philippians 4:11 Content
• Colossians 1:11 Patience
• Colossians 3:1-3 Thoughts are on Heavenly things
• Colossians 3:17 Do all for the name of Jesus
• Galatians 5:22,23 The Fruit of the Spirit

    We all desire eternal life and God has wrought a work within us (straightening our twisted, cleansing our perverted) completely renewing our minds to become more like His, thus enabling us to live with him eternally.

Passing Life Along

    Each time we bless our fellow man we are extending life to them. God has blessed us with so much and in so many ways that we actually can live and bless each other. God never intended for us to extend death or curses to those around us and Christianity itself is based largely on blessing everyone, even our enemies.

     May God Bless you with a full life as you live in the Spirit.