YOU WILL LIVE

Luke 10:27-28

He answered: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

 "You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. "Do this and you will live.”

 

            Let’s wrestle a little bit with the concept of eternal life.  The expert in the Law had asked about inheriting “eternal life”.   When Jesus gets to his answer he prefers to talk about “living”.   I see that on one hand Jesus is not talking about life without cessation as much as he is talking about a quality of life from the beginning.  If you love God and your neighbor you are experiencing life – the life that God intended.

 

“Jesus, be my life today.”

 

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