I Am the Life

Life.

Who needs life? I’m already alive.

Are you?

Death.

What can you do? Everybody dies.

Do they?

Are you alive? Your heart may be beating. Your lungs may be breathing. Does that mean you are alive?

God says that a person’s physical body may be alive, but they in reality are dead. God says that a person’s physical body may be dead, but they in reality are alive.

What does this mean?

God says that we are all born spiritually dead. To be dead means you can’t do something. You look at a baby and say, “It’s alive, because it can cry. It’s alive, because it drinks milk.” God says every baby, from the time it was conceived in its mother’s womb, is dead. Dead? What can’t it do? It can’t make God happy. It can’t do what God says it must do. It can’t obey God perfectly and earn eternal life.

You know this. You don’t teach children to disobey. They just do it naturally.

Dead, in the way that matters most.

What can a person do to stop being dead? We want eternal life. We don’t want to be punished for being bad. What can a dead person do to stop it?

A dead person can do nothing.

That’s scary.

That makes Jesus’ words, “I am the life,” exactly what spiritually dead people need to hear.

Dead people can’t do anything. Jesus is life. Jesus did something.

We couldn’t make God happy. Jesus made God happy in our place by being perfectly good. Then, Jesus took the disobedience of every individual ever born and suffered God’s eternal punishment for it.

What spiritual corpses couldn’t do, Jesus did!

Jesus now says to you, “I am life. He who lives and believes in me will never die.”

Christians never die. Their lungs stop breathing. Their hearts stop beating. But that is not life.

Remember, one can have a beating heart and breathing lungs and be dead, spiritually. One can have a failed heart and motionless lungs and be alive, eternally.

Do you believe this? It is true.

Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.