When you think of life, what do you think of? Maybe refreshment, a cool breeze, the over used “live, love, and laugh”, green grass… where does your mind take you?
This month in Uganda, we are staying with our pastor, his wife, and their baby. Solomon is a loud and charismatic fellow, and his wife is just as passionate. Every night after dinner and before bed, we sit around in the crammed living room with the lanterns on, in absence of electricity, and study the Truth. We started this bible study in John 14, specifically verse 6.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
We started out our first night talking about how Jesus is the life, and Lily gave a great analogy.
When we get mail, there are two components; an envelope and a letter. Which is more important? Some said the envelope because it carried the letter, and others said the letter because it had the actual message in it. The letter is what is being delivered and is what holds truth in its message. When we get the mail, we are always excited to get to the letter inside and ripe away the envelope without much thought.
I have an envelope, as well as a letter. My clothes, my hair, my body type, my material… that is all my envelope. My perishable. But I also have a letter, a message, a deeper life within me… and that is Jesus. My non-perishable.
I have spent so much of my life worrying about other’s perception of me solely dependent on what I looked like. Especially my body image. I am still working through that, settling further into my identity in Christ, and the words that Lily used to describe this life and freedom in Jesus hit home. I have His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, living inside of me. LIVING! That never gets old to talk about or think about, because it is such an honor to house part of my Creator’s Spirit… inside of me.
When I think of life, I dream about eternity with my Jesus and my Father. I think about the impossible here on this earth during this short life time. I think about all that my title of a daughter in the King of King’s Kingdom entails and how honored I am to be a part of His magnificent plan. I think about all of the gifts and blessings God wants to lavish on all of his children, and how he wants all of us in line with His beautiful will. I get very excited about the fullness and abundance my Provider promises to me, and energized to share this life I know with everyone else I know.
Jesus you are good… too good… we are not deserving of this life, but are eternally grateful.
What does life mean to you and how are you sharing it?
