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Jesus is…
The Life
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SCRIPTURE READING:
John 14:1-7
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”
Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
SIGNIFICANCE:
The LORD JESUS CHRIST is the essence of all true existence.
Dear Father, I praise Jesus for this final name He called Himself—the Life—in this declaration of three incomparable names that can only belong to Him. Thank You for reminding me again of John’s statement in John 1:1-4 that Jesus was with You in the beginning, that He was and is You, and that in Him is ALL LIFE (for all eternity past, when He created all life in heaven and on earth, when He walked on the earth, this moment today, and for all eternity future). Again, I exalt You and I exalt Jesus that For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself” (John 5:26). Hallelujah, that there is nothing in life that is not from Him, for Him, to Him, by Him, about Him, in Him, with Him and through Him. I pray that I and all believers will commit to knowing everything there is to know about the Life, and giving up everything else so we can live in Him completely. I pray that Your Spirit will put a consuming longing for the Life in the hearts and minds of unbelievers around us, so that they will forsake everything else that has given them “life,” and cry out to receive the real Life. In His living name I pray these things. Amen.
