My alarm goes off for the thousandth time that morning, causing my roommate to yell my name and wake me up. Like a robot, I climb out of bed, go through my morning routine, grab my backpack, and head out of the residential hall. Everyone, including myself, walks from class to class like a zombie. We are being dragged from one class to another, day after day, going through our automated routines.
Within that day of annoying alarms, various meetings, and yawn-worthy classes, I find myself forgetting about one important thing. Guys, life is more than this. Today, I read in 1 John 5:9-15 for a 21 Day Challenge to study the Word. Within it, I was awakened to what we are called to do. Though we know this calling--it is often an easy Sunday school answer--we do not live like it. "Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony." (v. 10) "And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life." (v. 11-12) Two words to notice here are "testimony" and "life." In Greek, the word "testimony" in this particular passage is "martyrian," and it means to bear witness or to be a strong witness to something. The word "life" in Greek is "zóé," which refers to life both of the physical and the spiritual. Because we believe in the Ultimate Testimony, the Testimony of Jesus' death on the cross for our sins, we have eternal life. Life is in the Son, in the Ultimate Testimony. We are called to "bear witness," to be "strong witnesses," to the Ultimate Testimony with our own lives. We are walking, breathing testimonies to the One who died on the cross so that we may have both physical and spiritual (eternal) life. My alarm clock may not wake me up in the morning, but this surely will! Let's live every minute of our lives knowing that we bear witness to the Ultimate Testimony and have eternal life through Jesus' death and resurrection. We are ALIVE!
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4/13/2016 01:03:23 pm
Kayla, as I have read some of your posts as you share them on social media, I am impressed with the gift God has entrusted to you. You are an articulate writer and this post is a grand example of that. I felt the need to encourage you with that. Continue serving the Lord through this gift!!
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