"Life for Life" -Too

 "For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will." (John 5:21 KJV) 

  "For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet preadventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commanded his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:6-8 KJV)

 Not that it is news to anyone, or at least it shouldn't be to those who have been quickened; but the thing we must fully understand, is that we were actually dead before Christ gave us life! Last I check, the dead cannot do much of anything; or at least, from what I have seen from movies, if they are able to become Zombies, then they will just feed on human flesh. But that is most likely some topic for another day.

 Seriously, you must understand what it is that I believe Jesus is trying to say: the Father raises the dead in judgment; the Son raises the dead in New Life! Again, some of that is the topic for tomorrow; but it is this New Life that Jesus gives, with abundant power, to do, to be, and to know, the wonders and the majesty of our Heavenly Father. Life in this New Life is real; while, death in the old life was pretty much the sum of all that we had to look forward to. 

 You can judge it for yourself, but I am pretty sure that the two of those options are worlds apart from each other, and anyone that cannot see the vast difference, well let's just say, It's because they are already dead! Besides that, Jesus clearly says, "whom he will," thereby reassuring us that it is He that choose us, not we that choose Him; besides that, how can the dead actually make any sort of choice for anything, they are dead! 

 I am really sorry if I am bumming with this dead stuff; but it is meant to give us hope! We don't have the strength to do anything, especially keep any of God's commands; how then will we have strength enough to find the One that gives us life? He found you, He choose you, He knows you, and it is His life that is living in you! Anywho; how can we really know who does what: GOD IS ONE...

"Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, (as it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were: who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded, that what he had promised, he was able also to perform." (Romans 4:16-21 KJV)