Life For Death (Daily Devotional)

Hello and welcome back to Living Supernaturally, our daily devotion. We hope you’ve been enjoying your time in the word daily. We’ve been meditating on the cross and what the Lord Jesus accomplished for us on the cross and it seems like a great exchange offer. We’ve been studying that this great exchange offer is available freely for us because it is a gift of grace and how do we have access to this grace? It is through faith and believing in the Lord Jesus and what He has done for us on the cross. Today, we look at one more aspect of what has been engaged for us. We see that the Lord Jesus gave us life instead of death. It is so stark; it seems like two different ends of the spectrum where He has exchanged and offering us life instead of death. You can look at death in terms of what sin does, decay if you can picture something decaying, something being corrupted, dying and being completely destroyed. Well, that is what death is and what sin ultimately does in a person’s life. So, the Lord Jesus has taken that upon Himself, whatever is causing death and whatever is death itself, He has taken it upon Himself on the cross and in its place, He is exchanging and offering life. If you can picture something thriving, flourishing, things of beauty, well, He has exchanged and is offering life for us. If you can look at Romans chapter 5, verse 12 it says, ‘Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned.’ It talks about the outworking of death because of sin. But the fact is that we have been redeemed from this. John chapter 3, verses 15 and 16, ‘that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.’ This life that these verses talk about is the ‘zoay’, the God kind of life which is spiritual life, thriving and flourishing, the God kind of abundant life and that is the life that has been extended to us. What do we do? We just receive it with gratitude, we receive it by faith and thankfully and say I thank you Lord for this God kind of life, this ‘zoay’ kind of life that can touch all realms of my existence of my life here, all realms, whether it is work, studies, life, marriage, relationships, the Lord extends this to us. We receive with gratitude and also resist the work of the enemy to bring in death and we remind ourselves that we have this God kind of life in us and we look for the expression of it in all areas of our life. Shall we pray, Father, we thank you that because of the cross, you took death upon yourself and you are extending to us life. May this God kind of life that you have out in us, may it touch each and every aspect of our lives and l pray let it thrive and flourish because of this God kind of life that we have access to. With grateful hearts we give you all the praise, in Jesus’ matchless name we pray, Amen.

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