Abundant life comes at a price. In John 10:10 Jesus tells His disciples that He came to give us a full life, an abundant life. Jesus compared the abundant life He gives – to a thief who comes to steal and destroy. The contrast is stark and, on the surface, looks to be a comparison between good and evil.
In fact, it is that but so much more. We can experience that abundant life from Christ all of the time, in the hard times as well as the good times. But, the abundant life has a price…a price of total trust; in Jesus and in what He says He will do.
Life to the full requires us to make a decision to completely trust Christ. It is difficult to imagine the infinite because we are finite. But, God in His infinite wisdom gives us infinitely more than we can ever imagine.
The apostle Paul, on his knees, prayed for the follower of Christ to grab hold ofeverything God makes available to him because Paul understood the depths of God’s power and love. What was true at that period of time is true today! Read the following prayerfully.
(NIV) Ephesians 3:16-19 “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
~Take it to Heart~
Abundant life. Life…to the full.
As you live, live life…one day at a time, live life…to the full.
No matter what circumstances are like, this day.