You were called to be more than just aware of God’s presence in your life. You were called to be awakened to the presence of God in your life. There was a time in my life when I was just aware of God. I was religious. I attended the church. I knew the praise songs […]
“The grass withers, the flowers fade, but the word of our God remains forever.”-Isaiah 40:8 Have you ever heard someone say, “I will get to it when I feel like it”? As a husband, if I ever said that to my wife, there would be some major consequences! Growing up, my mom would ask me […]
Men and Women of Action, a benevolent organization of the Church of God, reports on three recent projects. From El Salvador: Jose Terrero recently returned home from an MWOA trip to El Salvador—with an amazing story to share. Jose went to El Salvador to assist a pastor and local congregation to build a church. The […]
The Supreme Court announced that it will take up two marriage laws, the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) (U.S. v. Windsor) and California’s Proposition 8 (Hollingsworth v. Perry), a state marriage amendment. The High Court will decide both cases by the end of the term in June 2013. Section 3 of DOMA defines marriage […]
Recently Verna Linzey, a “daughter” of the Azusa Street Revival, was ministering in the Los Angeles Mission in Torrance when revival unexpectedly broke out with ecstatic utterances, prophecy, shaking and salvations, and this has continued at that mission. This weekend Linzey, author of The Baptism of the Holy Spirit, was invited to the Azusa Street […]
John 1:4 | NIV | In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
Jesus brings into our lives life, light, grace, and truth.
In Jesus is eternal, abundant life. Jesus told the woman at the well that rivers of living water would flow from within her.
When Lazarus dies, Jesus tells Martha, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; whoever lives by believing in me will never die” (John 11:25, 26 | NIV).
In 2 Kings, Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram contracts leprosy (which to him would be an almost absolute death sentence). Back home, his Jewish servant girl persuades him to go to the prophet Elisha. Elisha tells him to wash seven times in the Jordan, but Naaman becomes angry at the simplicity of his instructions. Eventually, however, he goes, obeys, and is healed.
I know we’ve been cleansed, totally, by grace through faith. But, I see, in this story, a parallel to our journey with Jesus: I keep on dipping in the Jordan, and life overtakes death in me because in Him is life, and life to the full.
He is the light of the world, and He has overtaken the darkness! The “powers” of evil, of sin, and of death, actually have no power, because Jesus has conquered them all.
The Psalmist wrote that God’s Word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. Jesus illuminates our journey, step by step, not as a spotlight, but as a lamp that leads the way. It’s the light, the Word made flesh, God with us, that walks us step by step on our journey home.
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