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“Alive & Alive”
Ephesians 2:4-5 NIV
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
There’s a song by Passion Conference that we often play at church called “Glorious Day”. One of the verses says “I was breathing, but not alive” and that phrase always reminds me of how our lives were before we knew Jesus Christ. We are all physically alive up until we give our lives to Christ, then we are both physically alive and spiritually alive. It’s so great to see people’s energy after they made a decision to follow Jesus. They are on fire and so excited to share with others.
As I look past on the past many years of my life, I see so often that I have lived my life without excitement of knowing Christ. I gave my life to Him when I was young, but there have been so many times where I didn’t live “Alive & Alive”. I was just breathing, as the song says. I hate to say it, but many of us tend to fall to this problem. We get so caught up in the day to day routines of life and we let things bog us down and so often our spiritual lives take a backseat.
If we have given our lives to Him, we should be living each day with excitement showing the lost world what they are missing. However, sadly, many of us (myself included) spend many days in our own world doing our thing and living as though we are not spiritually alive. We have so much to live for being born again in Christ!
We need to be bold and share with the lost world that we are not only physically alive, but spiritually alive as well. We sadly spend so many days pretending to be spiritually alive, but we are just basically breathing and on autopilot. We have so much more to be living for!
I want to encourage all of us to live not only physically alive, but spiritually alive as well. This passage says it all in that Jesus made us alive in Him! We have a story to tell and a wonderful love to share!
Are we just alive or are we alive & alive?
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