Life happens once, but this one life features a lot. Moments filled with happiness and sorrows, gains and pains. Relations of love and hatred.
Memories of companionship and lost. Life has a lot in offering. This one life is like many a life lived in one. But life always gives us an embrace of peace and hope.
Embracing “life in God” offers a profound sense of purpose and peace, transforming the way we experience the world and ourselves.
Quest for A life In God
It’s my life goes the anthem. It’s like each human is born with a flag of freedom. Yes God for us was never a dictatorial creator, starting with Adam and Eve, they used their freedom to commit the first sin of mankind of disobedience of God.
God always let us live a life freely, a life which was not of our own creation but a gift from the giver of life. God gave us a free will when breathing a life on earth. So we chose to live a life by ourselves then a life in God.
Living our days we seem to estimate that we can live our lives by ourselves and need no external force ruling over us or lest we go to anybody for guidance or support.
Thus the humans as they intellect in life, they believe in the non-existence of any God. They do not believe in any Divine force administering nature and downsize everything to science.
So a life in God is something they never wish to exercise as they do not believe in the very existence of God.
Being a non-believer of any religion or not being addressed as a Christian might make them feel modernized. But lacking is their wisdom in ignoring the teachings of the Holy Bible and the love of Jesus.
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Life is a wandering deer that pants for water, the living water that is Jesus Christ, a life with Jesus is living a life in God.
To all the atheist and the protestors against God, it’s requested to at least taste the waters of faith before they deny it all as a flawed drink. Seek the nectar of God’s grace and mercy that thy abandoned as bitter water of myth and falsehood.
This drink of Jesus is a drink of love and sacrifice that they miss, all for the deficit of real wisdom and their false self-assurance.
God seeks just your momentary companionship and the remaining days He grants you live freely to your will and ways.
But still beautiful and wise are the beliefs and traits of the humans, which seek to live a life, a life in God.
Life in God, In the Bible
A life with God in the Bible is expressed as a relationship of love, companionship, communion and hope with the Universal Creator.
The Bible reveals to us of God’s greatest desire that is to be in relationship with His creation and at the highest He had placed the human race whom He made in His own image and likeness.
In Genesis 1: 26-31
In the Bible we read of individuals who had a remarkable relationship with God. Truly a life with God.
Moses
A prominent figure in Exodus from the Bible, Moses walked closely with God after his calling and encounter with God at the burning bush. God chose him to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. He received from God the Ten Commandments that he gave the people of Israel before reaching the Promised Land.
Moses faithfulness and obedience to God’s command set him apart as a true servant of God, living his years in the companionship of God, a life with God.
Abraham
Abraham, also known as the Father of Faith was highly devoted to God. Living his life with God, he had an amazing walk of faith with God. It was his faith that let him leave his family home and move to the place where God led him.
It was his faith and life with God that in spite of their advanced age that Abraham and Sarah would have descendants as countless as the sand on the seashore or stars at night.
David
David was known as a man after God’s heart. He had a deep and intimate relationship with God. He was a young shepherd boy, when Samuel anointed him to be the future king of Israel.
David is surely an inspiration to us normal beings all placed in sin each day and how he like us facing trials and challenges each day had constantly chosen God’s guidance and always relied on God for strength and protection. David can be our hero living our kind of life, wherein he commits sins, breaking even a few Commandments but in the end he reaches to God in repentance and finds favor with God.
The Psalms, many of which were written by him are a testament of his devotion and a life in God.
Peter And Paul
Peter, one of Jesus’s twelve apostles was with Jesus as soon as He started proclaiming the kingdom of God and was with Jesus till his death and resurrection and further doing the will of Jesus of proclaiming and spreading the word of God to different parts of the world.
He was very close to Jesus and thus when the Lord asked him “Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.
Peter surely was living a life in God, Jesus.
Originally Saul, he had an encounter of the risen Lord after he was persecuting all of Jesus apostles and followers. This spiritual encounter with the Lord changed his life.
Following his baptism, Saul immediately began preaching the gospel about Jesus to all the people and nations.
Paul was truly a dedicated man of God.
- “Enoch walked with God; and he was no more, for God took him” (Genesis 5:24; see also Hebrews 11:5).
- Noah who obeyed God and he and his family was saved.
- Job, a man of God who repented and trusted God again.
- Isaiah, closeness to God had made predict of the coming of the Messiah, who would redeem His people from their sins.
Hosea, Daniel, Joel, Jonah, Micah and many a prophets that lived a life in God.
Jesus Teachings for A life In God
“Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.” John 15:4
Abide in me says Jesus. He keeps it so simple rather He desires no heavy living from this one life.
Jesus’ teachings remain a compass directing and anchoring us to a life in God.
Jesus walking on Earth wasn’t just 2000 years before, it continues to be even today and every day.
Jesus with His actions and teachings, offers us a vision that every human be longing for, a life in God.
The words of Jesus were not just scholarly or moral teachings, they were and are just as Jesus is now and forever, an invitation of virtuous living, redefining our life purposes and being always in purposeful to a life in God.
Jesus preached and practiced love and forgiveness as a way of life. He gave us a lifestyle we need to practice and live each day.
A life in God would not always feel perfect but it surely is powerful, when the gauge or measure is not earthly but heavenly.
Living our breathing days in fellowship with Jesus is walking in gratitude with the savior who died for me.
He is the one taking my place for punishment for my very sins. He is innocent but will be pronounced to be crucified and I will standing white, pure with no sins.
Jesus wants us be held on as branches of a tree that is Jesus and He promises us with fruits of eternal joy and peace.
It’s the framework through which humanity aligns itself with God’s eternity.
At the heart of Jesus’ teachings is the call to surrender and a life in God, it’s to die to the self and find God now living through you.
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
Matthew 16:25
With life in God, fear will be replaced with endurance, for God’s presence turns our weakness into strength.
The life storms will now not only be calm but also we will learn from God to walk upon these waves. Fear will fade, courage will grow.
Jesus needs our love “Love is all I need” is Jesus’ call as He speaks from the Cross. The Cross is not a symbol or an instrument of Jesus’ death, it is a symbol of love, sacrifice and hope by Jesus.
Find Jesus, Find Peace.
These words live eternal for every being on Earth.
You must not be a believer in Christ and not living a life in God, but He differentiates not. He died for every Christian who believes in Him, and He also died for you.
You can make a choice in choosing Him as your Savior, but He makes no choice with you, you don’t know Him but He knows you because He loves you.
A life is lived in vain when a life in God is not its traits.
Love Jesus as He loved you first and will forever as He as God says…
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you.
(Isaiah 49:15)
