Saturday, March 22, 2008
An Easter Meditation (John 14)
I didn't really come to John 14 expecting to write an Easter meditation. But, that is where verse 19 led me. Jesus says there: "Because I live, you will also live." When we first hear those words (especially out of their context), we assume that Jesus is talking about eternal life. Because Jesus has eternal life, we will have eternal life too. But a closer examination of John 14 tells us that Jesus is speaking about something more. In John 14, Jesus is speaking about our indwelling by the Holy Spirit. He says that we will do great things and have direct access to God because the Spirit is in us. Thus, the life of which Jesus speaks in verse 19 is not the life to come. It is the life that we are living now as the Spirit dwells within us. Jesus tells us that one of the great benefits of His being alive is that we have a full and complete life in the here and now. How thankful we can be that Jesus rose from the dead so that we can have the life that is really worth living!
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