John 6:63

“Life comes from the Spirit; the flesh has no worth in terms of the life I speak of.  The words I share with you are spirit and life.” John 6:63 EFP

This verse makes me smile.  I read it and I look beyond the interpretive key Jesus is giving his listeners, and I see Jesus making a last gasp effort to reach these lost souls in Capernaum and this lost soul writing these lines.  Even when Jesus gets frustrated with me in those moments when I “don’t get it,” he tries again to help me see my error.  It usually comes back to this.

Sprit versus flesh.  Intangible versus concrete.  Unseen versus visible.  I am so focused on the latter, when the source of all that is best for my life comes from the prior.  The things that are held and bought and made are also the things that are lost and sold and destroyed.  Only the Spirit is forever, and thus the only means by which things which are otherwise fleeting and temporary can endure. It is only through my faith in God Almighty through the Son of God that the Spirit of God infuses immortal life into the equation of my mortal existence.  Kingdom life breaks into the dark and dank walls of my meaningless mortal life and I begin to truly live.  Now.  Today.  Forever. 

Thank you, God!