One elderly person said, “I just didn’t spend enough time experiencing how good a hot bath really feels.” In other words, he wished he had taken more baths and fewer showers. I think the elderly person is saying I wish I had ‘lived.’
Can I ask you a question? “How long have you lived?” Not how long you’ve been breathing… but how long have you really lived?
I remember driving to Yosemite National Park many years ago. I am not a nature lover, but when I was driving down to the National Park, I saw the Yosemite Dome that was so beautiful, I stopped to take it all in. I was overpowered by the awareness of how small I was and how big it was. In that moment of awareness, I felt like I stepped outside of myself and watched myself living and experiencing Yosemite! I sucked in the scene as I inhaled. In that moment, what I saw was so intense, if I were to live a million years, that moment would be part of who I am. What I saw was nature glorifying the beauty of Jesus. I lived that day!
How long have you lived? Most people walk around like a walking dead, and those who are alive are all to seldom truly alive. C.S. Lewis once said, “Our age is marked by moderate vice and moderate virtue.” Perhaps this is Satan’s greatest feat… deadness of spirit, indifference, passionless living! At least passionate sins are interesting but this lifeless living is unbearable don’t you think?
Jesus referred to such life as ‘lukewarm’. Neither hot nor cold! Jesus offered so much more than an entrance to heaven and deliverance from hell. Jesus offered a new life, different kind of life, a radical life… an abundant life, which is characterized by His indwelling, life-giving presence.
When we have Jesus living in us, he offers so much more than a promise of an everlasting life. He offers life of joy that erupts from His own joy! An elevated life here and now! When we give the pilot seat of our life to Jesus and allow Jesus to live fully in us, which is to say to live in obedience to Jesus, we can live life on a whole new level of joyful intensity! Perhaps this week, it’ll be prudent for us to reflect on life we live and all that it has to offer in Jesus… perhaps you will experience new abundance in Him! Blessings. Live with Passion!!!
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