Such a hope filled passage…one of my favs…it succinctly shows how important love and living on purpose are along with how awesome our God is.
1. We see how awesome, capable and providential God is.
Not only is He is able to make good stuff happen, He is able to turn apparent bad stuff inside out for goodness sake. Now that’s power. Power to make the dead alive. That’s the powerful message of the Gospel.
Your belief isn’t going to change God’s power one iota because He is fully God and self-sufficient with or without any and all of His creation. He is that awe-some of that awe-all.
Q: Do you really believe He is THAT capable?
2. Next, we gather that NOT only is He capable of ALL but that He promises it.
Yes, it’s tangible. He, being Spirit is legitimate. We Christians have His spirit co-joined to our souls, living in physical bodies. We are tribreds. Very cool but understandable why so many of us are confused. That’s why we need to lay hold of His Word and cleave to it. His promises are true and are based on His timing, His providence, His universe.
He has named it. We need to claim it!
Q: Do you believe God is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent?
3. We claim His promise by responding to His love by loving Him back.
Wow, just fathom the Gospel message and living and dying and loving example of Jesus Christ. What love!
This kind of sacrificial love is worth pondering forever. We just need to abide in that love which transcends this physical realm and shall carry through this life into the next most glorious one which is beyond our comprehension and imagination….that’s per Jesus.
As a natural outflow of loving God, we are to love one another. Not only our brothers and sisters of other mothers but our enemies too, as we possibly can.
Q: Do you truly receive God’s love incarcerated in Jesus Christ?
4. If you are alive, you were designed for a purpose.
We each were created on purpose to fulfill a purpose. Living our purpose from love is WHERE IT is at and WHAT IT is ALL about.
Our purpose is multi-dimensional , as God is. We each were wonderfully created in God’s image, not necessarily physically but personally. His is a person and we are persons. Made to relate, know, discover and give God glory. That is our purpose and so much more I don’t know, you don’t know but God knows.
And this is enough: to know God and live to please Him.
We don’t need to know everything just knowing the One who does is sufficient and this is WHY this passage is so awesome.
Q: Do you believe you are child of God?