WE HAVE LIFE - BLUEPRINT 10-5-06

WE HAVE LIFE

1st JOHN 1:2
For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;

Growing up in church that I used to attend -there was a song I remember that said God in man made manifest -its true - with Christ we have eternal life -we have life in CHRIST and HIM alone -if we go any other place to try and find life -we will not have real life - but a substitute! Christ is the real thing - and He has come to save us and set us free -there are so many today caught up in bondage - JESUS did not come to earth so that we could be bound up! He gave HIS Life to free us from our sins - to open the doors of heaven wide so that all who trust in HIM could enter in - both now through prayer and after we leave this place - we have life in CHRIST!
Thinking about substitutes - satan has taken everything God made good and made it bad - by making it evil - this is such a shame and because of this many are bound up by their past -and JESUS came to get rid of the sins - and the guilt - we no longer have to walk around upset about our past - because its gone and once you come to know JESUS your past no longer matters- JESUS has wiped it away and does not remember those past sins - we have life in CHRIST -
nothing else will satisfy our needs like JESUS - just like the woman at the well found out -that HE is the Living water and once we taste this water -we will never thirst again! We have life in CHRIST -both here and forever more - JESUS is life! Lets live life thought HIM! Amen!

A side note: While each day that goes by is one day closer to the return of JESUS - our lives are passing away as well -but just our outward shell -the true us will continue on long after these bodies ware out and die - we will still be alive - that is because we have life in JESUS - and HE has promised eternal life to those who will follow HIM!

IN CHRIST we have life!

LIVIN IN THE WORD FOR THURSDAY 10-5-06
YOU HAVE NOT REALLY LIVED UNTIL JESUS HAS LIVED IN YOU!