But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
Job 16:5 (NIV)
Having the Son by Cathy Vinson |
Since the Garden of Eden where stood TWO
trees, there has been this dual choice. Choosing life or not to. From the beginning man
has been bent on choosing the tree that he thinks will leave himself as the major focus.
He looks to himself, his own good and evil, as in the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil, rather than choosing life. Again this was echoed when Moses spoke to the people in Deuteronomy 30:19: "...I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now CHOOSE LIFE, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him, for the Lord is your life..." From this list, we can see the things of life are in "having" Him: loving, listening, cleaving... The premier choice between life and death came when Jesus was set before us. Why again do we err and lean to the way that disregards the Living Person merely to look at the measley works of our hands? We really do like to look at ourselves. The Good side of the Eden tree deceives us; we are bolstered up by OUR good and the standards and goals we meet for ourselves. What we fail to notice is that the Good side, our good, is still from the same tree...it is not life. To have life requires that we "have the Son." He only requires that we "abide in Him" (Jn 15). We are confused because our works will not bring Him to us. A focus on ourselves will not do it. On our part let us choose relationship with the Son that we might find life. He is placed before us (Jn 3:14). Choose that you might have life. "Choose life..." |
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| "He who HAS the
Son has life; he who has not the Son of God has not that life" (1 John 5:12) |
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