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HANGING ON TO DEAR LIFE
Hanging on to...
Sometimes we find ourselves hanging on to dear life (spiritually, and financially, if not physically), it happens to all of us... that's when I begin to ask myself, "am I hanging onto the wrong 'dear life'?" This life that we live is but a vapor, here today and gone tomorrow... that does not make it any less important, or ease the pains of life though, does it?
But I can tell you with assurity that the TRUE DEAR LIFE does ease the pain, (I didn't say erase, I said "ease"... Jesus suffered, can we expect no suffering then? Surely not) what is the true DEAR LIFE? Jesus, of coarse... Jesus IS the word...
John 1:1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
"The word" being Jesus...AND Jesus is also "the living water"...
John 4:7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
(KJV)
8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
(KJV)
So Jesus is also the "living water"... He IS "dear life"... through faith in Him, we have hope... with substance... faith in Him gives our hope substance....
Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. {substance: or, ground, or, confidence}
(KJV)
(KJV)
Without him there is no substance in our hope... it is just as the world hopes... without anything to hold on to... like "I hope it's not too hot tomorrow" we know it is "iffy"... there is a good chance it will be too hot... but we "hope" it's not... and this type of hope is full of fear and dread... and stress...
but hope in Jesus frees us... oh, I am not going to lie to you... even when we hope in Jesus... our humanity is still effected by the trickery and deciet of the enemy...
but even then we have the answer in His word... "SUBMIT to God, RESIST the devil, and he will flee from you" (that word that was translated as "flee" means to run in fear)... the enemy will RUN IN FEAR from you...
So let us hang on to the TRUE Dear Life.... Jesus!!
written by Angela Bodiford 12/14/2008
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