God’s Life: The Source, Value, and Power of True Living

Summary

God’s life is the source of all true life and the only path to lasting fulfillment. Human understanding is limited, but Scripture reveals enough to experience God’s life now and forever. God’s life surpasses self-centered living, empowers godliness, and is marked by eternal love and service. Believers who share God’s life find deep contentment, purpose, and the ability to reflect Christ through sacrificial love that brings life to others.

The Limits of Human Understanding

No mortal fully understands God’s life. We know only what He has revealed through His word.  Believing we know more about Him is like extracting one drop of water from the oceans and thinking we are experts in oceanography. The good news is that He has told us enough to experience His life now and forever.

God’s Life as the Source of All Life

Life didn’t spontaneously evolve from nonlife. The living God is behind it all. Jesus is the author and initiator of life (Acts 3:15).

He imparted life to everything created and gives us insight into the true and valuable (John 1:4). Both the Father and Son have the power to give life to the non-living—physical and spiritual (John 5:26, Ephesians 2:1-5).

The Surpassing Value of God’s Life

Without God, life is empty (1 Peter 1:18), producing nothing of lasting significance. Those who cling to an everyday self-centered life will forfeit it, while those who give it up at Jesus’s bidding experience his vastly superior life (Matthew 10:39). Self-centered Christianity isn’t a thing.

The Power God’s Life Provides

Sharing Jesus’ spiritual life is more crucial for the long road than satisfying the necessities of life—food, drink, and clothing (Matthew 6:25). True life with the contentment and satisfaction fuel gauge needle eternally pegged on full is available only to those who share God’s life (1 Timothy 6:19).

Its power equips believers to live godly (2 Peter 1:3). We will shortly consider how God transmits His life to people.

The Unique Characteristics of God’s Life

Spiritual life is of a higher order than ordinary human life, like a Formula 1 race car compared to a tricycle (John 3:6). Jesus’s gift of that life is self-sustaining and continuing forever (John 4:14). With it comes full power and love (Ephesians 3:19).

Although Jesus was eternal life in human flesh (1 John 1:2), He didn’t insist on being served. He served others self-sacrificially (Matthew 20:28), modeling God’s will for all who follow Him. Serving yields a purposeful, full, meaningful, rich, and satisfying life and ocean-deep contentment for humans who partake of God’s divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).

Living Out God’s Life Through Love

God is love (1 John 4:8). When God loves, He is being Himself (1 Corinthians 12:31). We are never more like Jesus than when our love overflows to sacrifice ourselves to meet others’ needs (Galatians 1:4, Ephesians 5:2). Such living is a fragrant scent to those who are being saved (2 Corinthians 2:16). See more on the Word of Life.

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