The Supernatural Life In You
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
(John 10:10).
Certainly, our theme verse couldn’t be referring
to biological life since those to whom Jesus
spoke those inspiring words were already alive
biologically. Rather, He was referring to the divine
life—the God-life. The phrase, “more abundantly,” used
in the King James is a little cloudy; the actual Greek
rendering is, “to the full.” He actually said, “...I am
come that they might have life, and that they might
have it to the full.”
Jesus didn’t need life from God when He walked
the earth; He was the totality of life! John 1:4 says,
“In him was life….” In 1 John 1:2, the Apostle John
describes Him as the manifestation and embodiment
of life itself: “(For the life was manifested, and we
have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you
that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was
manifested unto us).” In John 5:26, Jesus Himself
affirmed, “For as the Father hath life in himself; so
hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.”
Now you can understand why He’s able to give
that life to the full to anyone who comes to Him. The
Bible says he that has the Son, has this life (1 John
5:12). If you’re born again, you aren’t born after the
first Adam, but after the second and last Adam—Jesus
Christ. Eternal life, the divine life, is in your spirit. You
can’t have this life and be infected with HIV or have
your body ravaged by cancer! This life can’t coexist
with diabetes or stroke; it destroys sickness and
disease, and repels darkness.
The trouble with many is that they aren’t conscious
of the supernatural life of God that they have. It’s
for this reason that the Spirit, writing through John,
admonished that you be conscious of your divinity;
conscious that you have eternal life, the God-life in you:
“These things have I written unto you that believe on
the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that
ye have eternal life…” (1 John 5:13).
You’re not ordinary. The life in you is incorruptible
and superior to sickness, disease or the negative forces
of life. Live every day with this consciousness.
Prayer
Dear Father, I thank you for the transcendent life of glory,
righteousness, victory, success, prosperity, and health that I
have in Christ; a life of mastery and dominion. I walk in the
consciousness of my divine origin and life in Christ, soaring
above the limitations of this world, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Further Study
1 John 5:11-12; Romans 8:11; 1 John 4:4
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
2 Corinthians 12:1-21
Ecclesiastes 3-5
2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
Luke 22:44-53
2 Samuel 1