God’s Life Available Now: How to Receive and Live It

Summary

God’s life is available now and is far more valuable than any earthly gain. Received by grace through faith in Jesus, this life comes through God’s word, the work of Christ, and the Holy Spirit. God’s life transforms believers from self-centered living to God-centered living, producing righteousness, joy, perseverance, and holiness that glorify God and endure forever.

God’s Life Is Worth More Than Everything

Possessing God’s life now is far more worth pursuing than becoming a billionaire. The entryway to that life is easily missed, the path is hard, and most people never obtain it (Matthew 7:14).

It is worth sacrificing everything that hinders righteous living (Matthew 18:8-9). Jesus will repay us one hundredfold for the sacrifices we make for Him and share His life with us (Matthew 19:29).

God’s Life Available Now Through Faith

He paid His life to purchase it for us. Our price is self-denial. Self-denial doesn’t earn God’s life, but those who receive it freely by grace through faith demonstrate it by self-denying love.

Belief in Jesus taps into His life and makes it a present reality and possession for those who pay attention to His message and believe in the God who sent him (John 5:24).

God’s angry judgment punishes all who don’t believe (John 3:36). By faith, we are made right in God’s sight (Romans 1:17).

It feels like we choose to come to Jesus and trust in His atoning sacrifice in our place on the cross to embrace this life (John 5:40, John 6:54), but, mysteriously, Jesus freely chooses all who receive His life (John 5:21). We become God’s friends by grace through faith. Jesus’s resurrection guarantees we will share in His resurrection life (Romans 5:10).

God’s Life Comes Through the Scriptures

God’s life saturates His word. The eternal word imparts eternal spiritual life to those who believe it (1 Peter 1:23). Spiritual life is born in us through the words of the gospel. God’s life is planted in us by grace through faith (Acts 5:20, Philippians 2:16). God’s word points to Jesus, who gives eternal life (John 5:39).

God’s Life Comes Through Jesus

Jesus is God’s life in an audible, visible, and touchable form. He reveals that life to humanity, packaged as a human being (John 1:1). Eternal life is God’s gift to believers drawn from the well of his Son’s life (1 John 5:11). It is the living water of His life, available only to us who belong to Him (1 John 5:12).

Physical bread symbolizes what the True Bread came to accomplish. As bread gives physical life, Jesus, the True Bread, gives spiritual life (John 6:33). He provides self-sustaining spiritual nourishment for all who come to and believe in Him.  Coming to Him is the same as believing in Him (John 6:35).

Those who come to Jesus discover His words ooze with eternal life (John 6:68). His ways are true and righteous and provide a lit highway that leads to fully experiencing His life (John 8:12).

Coming to and believing in the Father and experiencing His life happens exclusively through coming to and believing in Jesus (John 14:6). All who experience that life know and have a relationship with God and Jesus Christ (John 17:3).

God’s Life Comes Through the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is the agent through whom eternal life comes apart from human effort, using trust in divinely inspired words to accomplish it (John 6:63). The Spirit gives spiritual life to those who have been made right with God, even though they will die physically (Romans 8:10).

Evidence of God’s Life at Work in Us

With Jesus’s life, we are fully committed to what is right for God’s glory, just as Jesus was (Romans 6:13), and live for Him and His purposes (2 Corinthians 5:15). Self-centered living gives way to God-centered living (2 Corinthians 5:17) despite persecution (2 Timothy 3:12). We don’t make a practice of sinning (1 John 3:9).

Goodness, peace, and joy characterize our lives (Romans 14:17). Jesus’s life in us is evident when the going gets tough (2 Corinthians 4:11).

It produces righteous character to bring glory and praise to God (Philippians 1:11). We pursue righteousness, a godly life, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness (1 Timothy 6:11). We chase a peaceful, holy life (2 Timothy 1:9, Hebrews 12:14). We are God’s pure, clean instruments to live honorable lives and do good in this world (2 Timothy 2:21, Titus 2:14, James 3:13). See more on the Word of life.

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