When looking at another person, one is looking at someone shaped by God with love and purpose, and is precious in His eyes. He clothes the lilies in beauty, uses animals for His glory, and knows each person greater than anyone. The Lord reassured His disciples in this moment that since God values the lives of even the smallest creatures He made, He loves and cares for people even more.Īll living beings have value to God. Fear not, therefore you are of more value than many sparrows” ( Matthew 10:29-31). But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Jesus taught that people should not worry about tomorrow in part because, “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. Focusing too much or entirely on the way of the world can cost someone meaning in this life, and eternity as it says in Matthew 16:26, “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?” came that they may have life and have it abundantly” ( John 10:10). “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. These things come from man’s sinful nature, exacerbated by the enemy – Satan. Ideas, beliefs, habits, and behaviors that come from a worldly position, from sin, and from wickedness are not life, but lead someone towards both physical and spiritual death. “And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience - among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind” ( Ephesians 2:1-4). Living in this world is described as being a slave of the flesh, walking in darkness, and being a subject of the kingdom of God’s enemy.
The problem is that everything in this world, including man’s own nature, becomes an obstacle to taking that step from death to life. Once someone puts their faith in Christ, their relationship with God is restored, redeeming them to eternal life in Heaven, and making their life on earth more meaningful.
From now on you do know him and have seen him’” ( John 14:6). If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. No one comes to the Father except through me. “Jesus said, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. In order to redeem man’s eternity, God sent Jesus to pay the price for all sin. Separated from God by sin, not only do man’s efforts in this life wither, but he is spiritually cut off from God, dies physically in sin, and is separated spiritually forever from God in hell. Because of sin and death, everything man sets his hand to is laborious and ultimately fades away. God did not intend that death would claim humanity though, and intended them for everlasting life. That man sinned, bringing death into the world. Life started when God formed the Heavens and the earth, then breathed life into a man He made out of dust. If God is both the source of life, and life itself, and He is eternal, then life must be understood as something beyond 75 years (give or take) on a rock hurtling through space. In fact, the Bible says He is these things: God is love ( 1 John 4:16), and God is life ( John 1:3-4). God is the source of all life and all love. Both words and ideas come up frequently, often in close proximity. There are also important themes, including love and life. Jesus, the Son in the Triune Godhead, is the main character. The Bible is, in many ways, God’s autobiography, told through individuals who had personal and intimate relationships with Him.
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