Just A Minute
Life isn't Worth Living, is it?
By
Feb 24, 2004

'It's no use' she said, with all her 22 years experience, 'Life just isn't worth living'.

'I've no idea where I am or where I'm going', said the middle-aged man.

'What's life for?' said the widow. 'I've nothing left to live for.'

Talking to everyday people with those very problems, Jesus of Nazareth said:

'I have come that you might have life and have it
more abundantly'.

What on earth did He mean? Live longer? Not at all. You can live miserably to be a hundred - and anyway Jesus died at 33. Did Jesus mean that the real quality of. living was missing; that folks were only existing, working, earning, spending, eating, sleeping, loving, hating? Did He mean that that wasn't real living? You've got it, it wasn't then and it isn't now - not real life.

Christ's word for real life is 'eternal Life'. It has an extra dimension that even death can't stop ' Now this gift that doesn't end at the grave, is a gift from God. You get it by simply a ccepting it as a gift, by trusting Christ with yourself as you are' It's possible because His own perfect life was offered as a gift which releases and sets free that life that He has to spare. No one else has this to give - read it in His own words - John I 0.

Now read: Philippians 1. 21 and 3. 7 - 1 1.


© Copyright 2004 by Frank Cooke