God is Life

http://www.photoblip.com/pictures/98055/the-definition-a-good-person.html

A friend sent me this link yesterday and recommended me to incorporate this into something deeper, that is the true meaning of life. Being a child who is raised in a Christian family, I wondered why we went to church every Sunday,and I was called a "church kid" because I was taught about God and received God throughout my childhood. To be honest, I didn't truly understand all those teachings about Christ back home, but after living with a bunch of church sisters back in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as well as being involved in conferences and retreats with the Canadian saints, I realized that, with God, life is full of meaning.

So, the picture above is the link I receive. Many Christians believe that they should do good in order to please God and to get closer to God. I agree that we should be good in the eyes of the Lord. However, there is one thing that a lot of them don't know. They have a little hole in their hearts, and they're finding the missing patch to sew it back on. The patch is God as life. Their true, real life. What I mean here is that they have to allow God to enter into their hearts and to guide them every day in every place and every minute. God is a real person, not just the Holy Spirit. If we open our hearts and listen to His speaking, He will tell us what to do. In this way, the things we do in life will not only satisfy ourselves, but also God Himself!

Now you probably know the story of Adam and Eve in the beginning of the Bible. God made them for a significant purpose, that is to express Him and to contain Him as a vessel. God gave them two types of tree: the "tree of life" and the "tree of knowledge of good and evil" (Lee, 104). "God's placing man in front of the tree of life [so that] men [can] receive Him as [life]"and to take him in as "food" (Lee, 110). He is our real food! He is found "in the Word", which is the Bible (Lee, 110). In fact, the tree of life represents God himself! Praise the Lord that He is life! We have to take Him as our "center" so that he can supply our empty hearts with his life. His life becomes our life which is real to us (Lee, 110). God also desires us to take Him as "food", as it says in John 6:48: "I am the bread of life" and John 6:57: "He who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me." (Lee, 110-111). The fruits that grow in the tree of life are organic and fresh for us to eat and enjoy, and this will help us to experience God's life as well as his eternity. John 6:51 reminds us: "I am the living bread, which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread which I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world". On the other hand, the tree of knowledge of good and evil is portrayed in the picture above. People who only believe in the matter of good and bad are dying. Genesis 2:17 says: "But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, of it you shall not eat; for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die". Eve ate a fruit from this tree and she experienced death, so did Adam. Same goes to us today. If we eat the tree of knowledge of good and evil, all we believe is morality and values, which causes us to fail in experiencing God's presence! Yes, you go to church but if you do not feel that God is knocking the walls of your heart and begging you to let him break through and reach you to breathe him in, then you are not satisfied with the way you live just like the woman in the picture. Ask yourself, dear reader. Do you want to eat the tree of life OR the tree of knowledge of good and evil? I would like to hear you say: "I want to eat the tree of life so that I can depend on God as the real life!"

Life is like flowing water that gushes out of a fresh, crystal clear river. John 4:14 says, "But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life". Many Christians take this as a doctrine, thinking that the fountain of living water is only a metaphor or an illusion of God. But here's what I learn from this precious verse. This specific type of water is a source that we as thirsty, desperate, empty human beings are seeking for to survive spiritually. It "[flows] within us", "[proceeding] out of the throne of God" (Lee, 153). "This river was made to water the garden [of Eden] that [it] might grow things of life" (Lee, 153). The world's first garden, the garden of Eden is introduced in the book of Genesis, and this symbolizes that today, the garden of Eden is in us! The greenery (trees and flowers and fruits and all you can find in this garden) depends on the amount of water flown from "the river of water of life" (Lee, 163). If a person's garden is dying, it means that he or she doesn't have the right amount of water from the river of life to water the garden. So what can we do to water the garden in us? Simple. We need to open ourselves to the Lord to allow the "fountain [to emerge] as a spring, and the spring flows out as a river" (Lee, 152)! We need the Lord to whoosh his waters of eternity all over our spirit, our soul, and even our body so that we can experience Him as our only life!
If you're interested, here are a couple of hymns about God as life.
"Christ Has Come To Be Life"
http://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn.php/ns/149
"Take My Life and Let It Be"
http://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn.php/h/445

Lee, Witness. Holy Word for Morning Revival: Crystallization-Study of  

Genesis: Volume One. Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry, 2013. Print.
Lee, Witness. Holy Word for Morning Revival: Crystallization-Study of 

Genesis: Volume Two. Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry, 2013. Print.

So..yeah...that's pretty much it! XD I've spent two hours writing this out, but it feels great to share this to you. Thanks to these two books as reference (as shown above), the points here are linked to the real matter of life. Only God's life is ideal and full of hope and glory, and with it, we can no longer suffer!

Oh! And as a special treat, this is a favourite video of mine about the Christian students at UBC (University of British Columbia) who sang a bible song from John 6:51.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d6pZ8CVQoE

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