[Discoveries] 09-11-08 Life -- John 1:4

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/*In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. -- John 1:4*/

I've read several books on the Soviet Gulag. They aren't pleasant, but I 
read them because I want to know what went wrong with that culture so 
that I can think clearly about what kind of citizen I want to be. And, 
within that reason, I want to know the truth about my world so that my 
faith isn't candy-coated nonsense, but rather real.

The truth is: We live in a messed up world. The reality is sometimes 
worse than our worst nightmares. Into this darkened world, Jesus was 
born. He grew up with hardship and Roman oppression. He tasted hunger, 
thirst, fatigue, weakness, pain, torture and death.

He was somehow fragile and indestructible at the same time. He went 
ahead of us to show us that there is no place from which God cannot 
deliver us.

When Jesus' battered body was laid in the cold grave, everything that we 
understood told us that His life was over. He was finished; a courageous 
man taken down by a world gone mad. But in Him was life, and no Roman 
cross could take that life away from Him.

Now we look at the unstoppable life of God in Christ and we begin to see 
the truth: The world has been trying to crucify the Body of Christ for 
2,000 years, but it will never succeed. His life is in us, and it will 
draw us out from the darkest hour into His everlasting joy.

Be encouraged!
Dwight

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