I Am Alive
Life. With every heartbeat it flows through our veins. With every breathe we pull it in, feed it. It pulses through our nerve endings and vibrates across our muscles. Each blink, movement, or ripple of emotion declares to the universe, "I am alive. I am alive. I am alive."
This declaration, on it's own, is a pleas for what we do not have. We are slowly dying. From the moment Eve took her first bite of that apple, the fate of every living being was decided. Our bodies, which seem so strong, would every so gently wearing away. We are slipping. This universe is unable to sustain human life for more than a few decades.
Our only hope is that somewhere, between our fragile skin and bones, there is something that can outlive this mortal shell. It is this part of us that longs for a world beyond our own, for a love we have never known in full, and for a promise spoken long ago.
It is our soul, calling out a question which only the Holy Spirit can answer.
One man, Adam, is accredited for introducing death into the world. So then is one man accredited for returning life to us, Jesus Christ. "For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive" (1 Corinthians 15:22).
Thus, as our mortal lives slip through our fingers like sand, our eternal salvation in Christ remains a steady rock. With every step we take towards Him, we grow more and more alive. We must always keep in mind that we are no longer a part of the dying, that we stand apart as those who have been promised more.
We are reminded of this in every moment. It is not our heartbeat that proves we are alive. It is not our breathe that can preserve us. It the Holy Spirit within us that screams of our defiance of death as it reminds us, "You are alive. You are alive. You are alive."
"But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness." -Romans 8:10
This declaration, on it's own, is a pleas for what we do not have. We are slowly dying. From the moment Eve took her first bite of that apple, the fate of every living being was decided. Our bodies, which seem so strong, would every so gently wearing away. We are slipping. This universe is unable to sustain human life for more than a few decades.
Our only hope is that somewhere, between our fragile skin and bones, there is something that can outlive this mortal shell. It is this part of us that longs for a world beyond our own, for a love we have never known in full, and for a promise spoken long ago.
It is our soul, calling out a question which only the Holy Spirit can answer.
One man, Adam, is accredited for introducing death into the world. So then is one man accredited for returning life to us, Jesus Christ. "For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive" (1 Corinthians 15:22).
Thus, as our mortal lives slip through our fingers like sand, our eternal salvation in Christ remains a steady rock. With every step we take towards Him, we grow more and more alive. We must always keep in mind that we are no longer a part of the dying, that we stand apart as those who have been promised more.
We are reminded of this in every moment. It is not our heartbeat that proves we are alive. It is not our breathe that can preserve us. It the Holy Spirit within us that screams of our defiance of death as it reminds us, "You are alive. You are alive. You are alive."
"But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness." -Romans 8:10
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