WORD 2day: 3rd Friday of Easter
May 10, 2019: Acts 9: 1-20; John 6 : 52-59
As I draw life from the Father, you draw life from me offers the Lord today! The life giving Lord takes the initiative to encounter us and offer us the precious gift of life and the wondrous gift of eternal life. The question that remains is: are we ready to behold that encounter? Saul was!
Saul, though he was in a totally contrary mindset, was ready to encounter the Risen Lord and respond promptly and absolutely. He listened to the Lord and gathered the Lord's call and went ahead to love it in his life. He was fundamentally a person who lived his life to the full and that is why when the Lord offered him the true life, he grabbed it with all his heart.
Paul is such a great model of Christian living. If Jesus were able to say, 'the Father and I are one' and invite us to draw life from him as he draws from his Father, Saul who became Paul was able to challenge his fellow Christians: be imitators of me as I am of Christ (1 Cor 11:1). That is drawing life from Christ, and that is exactly what Jesus expects from us - that we draw life from him as he does from his Father!
The Lord is the source of life and the Life itself and let us surrender ourselves in total earnestness to draw life from Life itself!