A Reflection On Finding True Life

When I need to refocus on the life of the Spirit

God’s Kingdom is so encompassing, so eternal, so all-consuming that it means everything. It is life—the source of life, the abundance of life, the destiny of life. This world that we see with our eyes and spend most of our lives obsessing about means nothing as an end in itself. It exists as a very good part of God’s creation, but it has no value apart from life in the Spirit.

Disciples of Jesus must take on His spiritual nature. We must live with eternal perspectives, considering ourselves citizens of a spiritual Kingdom. We must understand that the Spirit gives life and that this world counts for nothing.

Jesus tells us to partake of Him. His is the life that we must take upon ourselves; His words gives us life through His Spirit. We must daily reorient ourselves from the life of the flesh to the life of the Spirit. All of our decisions must be spiritually appraised from an eternal, Kingdom-conscious perspective. Life can be found nowhere else.

The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

John 6:63