Part of our story of origin, or the story that helps us define who we are, is the story of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit and being cast out of the Garden of Eden. God had given them permission to eat fruit from all but the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, with the admonition that if they disobeyed and ate of this tree they would die, and yet they ate of the tree anyway. Death came to human beings. Mortality, a brevity of our days, but more so a spiritual death.
The relationship human beings had with God was broken. Through Jesus humanity got the eternal do-over. Through Jesus, the curse of Adam was reversed and we no longer die in the final sense of that word.
Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. The Apostle Paul was convinced of the reality of the resurrection of Christ.
For since death came through a human being, the resurrection of the dead has also come through a human being; for as all died in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ. I can recall some unhappy incidents where I left my flashlight behind and missed steps, tripped over a root, put my foot in a hole, or on something less pleasant. How do we stumble? We fall into those baser actions which are often the result of putting ourselves before others.
Jesus calls us to imitate him and be lights as well. When we walk in the light of Christ, we can avoid the obstacles of the night. We actually begin to reflect the light of Christ onto others and help them to step out of the darkness into the light. There is a star shining over a manger in Bethlehem, but it is overpowered by the light that shines from the manger. There are voices filling the heavens with praise and rejoicing, but they are mute in comparison to the Word of God that rests quietly on a bed of straw.
There is a young mother who has just given birth to a new life, but the child she bore has just given birth to a new nation, the Kingdom of God and the Word of God calls you to step into the light and live. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.
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