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 WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DRAW LIFE FROM?

There are a plethora of things that people try to use to define themselves, to derive a sense of significance or identity from. Some use education to define themselves. For others it is power or money or influence on others. 

Today other people try to draw a sense of life and meaning from various types of sexual orientation, identifying with others as confused as they are about what makes for life. Politics has become the major religion of our day, and people think they can actually draw life from belonging to a particular party. People are desperate to have the approval of others to validate the essence of their own being. We desperately long to belong...but that hunger is actually a hunger for God and the wholeness He alone can provide.

The problem is that you cannot draw life from sin in any form, be it pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth or any permutation of them. Sin carries nothing of true and lasting life in it. You see, Jesus Christ did not come to just teach about the Kingdom of God, but to make me what He taught I was destined to be. 

True and eternal Life comes only in and through Jesus Christ. He is THE way, THE truth, and THE Life. No one comes into that way of being except through Him. It is only being delivered out of the kingdom of darkness and being translated into the Kingdom of God through Jesus Christ, where one has forgiveness of their sin, redemption through His blood. Then life happens by God's doing: transformation, healing, deliverance from deception and the futility of trying to draw life from sin in any form. It is only in Jesus Christ that we become empowered by the Holy Spirit to follow Him, live a life of fruitful obedience and faith being conformed to His image by God's grace.

People do experience a counterfeit "belonging", a counterfeit "destiny" that leads to eternal separation from all wholeness and goodness when they try and draw life from, define themselves by the sin they believe can give them lasting peace and belonging. As God's Word states, "There is a way that seems right to humanity, but the end thereof is death." For, Life comes only from the Lord of Life, Jesus Christ. There is no other source or substance that can give us what we are designed by God for.

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