ALIVE!

Some people feel that a trip to Church means death. This is about the only time people come into Church – to see death. I overheard a conversation earlier about some person saying something along these lines. She used our term ‘being close to God’ as a negative thing, as if that when you’re close to God, you’re more than likely dead. As in heaven.

But we have a responsibility to ensure that this is not the case. We are not the life-givers – we are the life livers! And this has a profound effect on those around us! We cannot create life, re-create life or even represent life in an effective way. But while we do not have the ability to make things come alive, or make life-like robots or art – we do have the wonderful capability to live! All of us! It doesn’t matter how old or young you are: you are alive.

We have to find life in everything, by understanding that everything natural around us lives and breathes, that our atmosphere at Church is not gloomy or overcast, or that we become so bogged down with mortality or that Jesus died…no! Let’s concentrate on celebrating life!

And our God is the God of life. Being close to Him means being alive, because we can neither help but hear His heart beat! He’s the living God of the living Word – Everlasting! Eternal! Exceptional!


"...regarding your speculation on whether the dead are raised or not, don't you read your Bibles? The grammar is clear: God says, 'I am—not was—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.' The living God defines himself not as the God of dead men, but of the living." Hearing this exchange the crowd was much impressed. Matt 22: 29-33 MSG

The most important thing I said in my ‘live’ devotionals, was that very word. Simply: Live.

- Andrew Gordon