On Coming Alive...

Blooming flowers always remind me of coming alive -
of a blooming of the soul. ~ Sara

There are a lot of organizations, life coaches, and even songs inviting people to come alive. In April I hosted a leadership training event for a ministry in which I was involved at the time. Most of our training was on a DVD.  There was one speaker on the DVD who said “everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.  Anyone who loves anyone knows God and has been born of God… anyone who has interacted with love at all knows God and has been born of God.”  He continued later to say he wants to be the kind of person that no matter what people are doing in their world/in their life they knew that he is a person who believes in God and saw God in them. “Because if they love they know God and are born of God.”

Jesus says, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” (John 14:6).

Scripture also says:

“No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.” (1 John 3:9-10)

“Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.” (1 John 5:1-4)

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me. Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me? He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.” (John 8:42-47)

We have all been loved – the Bible tells us in John 3:16 that “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son…,” and Romans 5:8 tells us, “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Everyone has interacted with love in some way – both here on earth and when God knit us together in our mothers’ wombs.  However, we are not all God’s children.  We are all His creation, but we do not all know God nor are we of God until we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior (John 1:10-13). Immediately upon our salvation we are adopted into His kingdom and become joint-heirs with Jesus (Romans 8:16-17).  

I invite you to truly come alive.  Read the Bible to learn about who Jesus is and the abundant life only He can give.