Because I live, you also will live.
What does it mean to “live?” I don’t mean to be “alive” like a plant or animal might be, but to really live.
The world’s definition of living is about consuming. How much stuff can you get your hands on? How much food and drink can you consume? How many things can you get? How many friends can you collect?
Once you have gone down that path the next step in the world’s definition of living is, “How good is your stuff?” Do you have the best food? How expensive is the stuff you buy? How new is your car? How elite are your friends?
Each step down this path is more expensive, more demanding, more consuming. At the end of the road, this path looks more like a treadmill than a life.
The kind of life that Jesus is talking about is very different. It harkens back to the separation from God that occurs in Genesis 3 when Adam and Eve touch the forbidden tree. On that day they died. Not physically, but spiritually. They lost their innocence in God’s sight and become separated from God. The relationship with the people He made was forever changed.
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