… I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
John 10:10
- FEBRUARY 17 -
LIFE ABOVE THE SUN
When you are not enjoying abundant life, you will feel as if life is
full of toil. In your heart, life is meaningless and empty. You feel
like someone “grasping for the wind”. (Ecclesiastes 2:11)
It seems as if nothing you do adds up to much. The Bible calls this
life “under the sun”. (Ecclesiastes 2:11) Someone who lives life under
the sun may or may not know God, but God is either forgotten or not the
center of things in his life. His thoughts are earthly and he does
things to gratify his flesh. In the end, he finds life depressing and
unfulfilled. Life under the sun is full of despair.
But this is not so with someone who lives life above the sun with God.
For life with Him is filled with joy and pleasures at His right hand.
(Psalm 16:11) Life is abundantly full and good just as Jesus promised—“I
have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly”.
When you live life above the sun, your thoughts are heavenward and you
become Christ-occupied. You live for Him because you know that all
things were created through Him and for Him. (Colossians 1:16) When you
live for His glory, your life takes on a new meaning and purpose.
God’s Word says, “And He is before all things, and in Him all things
consist.” (Colossians 1:17) The Greek word for “consist” means “held
together”. In Christ, all things are held together. And that is why when
Christ is the central figure in your life, you will have it all
together. Your mind will be held together. Your hopes and dreams will be
held together. Your family will be held together by the cords of His
love.
Your life will not be empty, but full of God’s goodness because “Christ
in you, [is] the hope of glory”. (Colossians 1:27) It is a wonderful
life—this life lived above the sun. And you will have an even more
wonderful life to come in heaven!
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