Life Abundantly

John 10:10

King James Version (KJV)

¹⁰ The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

But, what is this abundant life?  I believe it is a life free of decay, destruction, and consumption by death. This is a life that is free from the entrapment that sin brings by way of temptation.  We are not alive by consuming things alone.  We are alive by consuming the life giving power and presence of God.  Life Himself.  That’s why Jesus said:

Matthew 4:4

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

But inside of us all lays desires that we should not pursue.  This temptation is the enemy’s hope of bringing death to the living.  Sin tangles us and chokes this new life out of us. 

James 1:14-15

Darby Translation (DARBY)

¹⁴ But every one is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his own lust;

¹⁵ then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death.

This means that sin is an event motivated by temptation, but the incurring death is a process.  Just like natural birth.  It has to grow up and develop.  Sin Is the cancer of the believer.  It may not kill you today, but death is growing in you.  And what is death really? Death in no more that what consumes all of the life in the living. Is a force that makes everything like it’s self, existing without the ability to create or respond.   It is life devoured and consumed.  God wants us to be free for sin which entangles and in time, devours the life that He died to give.  A life that overflows.

John 5:14

Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more,

John 8:11

She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

But if we do… What next??

1 John 1:9, 1 John 2:1, and so many more!!! Love you!