Life within Life. This is the way of Jesus. Our lives are lived in His life,
covered, if you would, by the amazing grace revealed in Him. This is good news, according to the
Bible. The apostle Paul reminds us
that our life is what he calls an "earthly tent." It is temporary and mortal. It won't be forever. However, "if our earthly tent is
torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in
the heaven" (2 Cor. 5:1).
I have been facing
"earthly tent" issues recently because of health issues, very
conscious that my body is temporary and mortal. Even if God should give me many more years, a day will still
come when this old body will expire.
As many years or days as I have left God helping me, I will live for Him
and Him alone. On that day when
the Life in which I have been living my life is revealed, it will not be a sad
day for me.
The abiding presence of
the Holy Spirit daily reminds me that my life is covered by the God of all
grace, the God who emptied himself of all but love and actually died for me on
the cross of Calvary. Whether I am
here or there does not matter.
What matters for me as I live in an earthly tent is that I "walk by
faith, not by sight" (2 Cor.
5:7).
I have been asking God
to remind me everyday that
"momentary, light affliction is producing…an eternal weight of glory far
beyond all comparison" (2 Cor. 4:17). I can live with that; I can live in day-by-day victory with
that.
Life in HIS Life. That is living. I'll take this every time.
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