real life

You just need to do all you can while you can, because you just never know when you won't be able to do any more.

She said it in reference to her grown daughter... and all her activities and travel...

She... a friend recently widowed... after nearly 63 years of marriage... left at a loss... about life... Living in a nursing home... feeling half dead herself...

But to me... her advice didn't sound quite right... all the activity of the flesh... the things of this world... they aren't really life...

After I left her... a verse came to mind...

The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing.

The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

John 6:63

Jesus's words about real life... it's not found in the flesh... in this world... it's found in Him... in the Spirit...

Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. ...

John 6:26

Real life... eternal life... is in Christ Jesus... and the doing we should do is the doing He calls us to... the acts of faith... the dying to self... the loving of neighbors... and enemies...

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,

for they will be filled.

Matthew 5:6

This kind of living... real living... happens wherever you are... wherever He has placed you... for however long He has placed you there...

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

Colossians 3:3

Lord... continue to remind me that real life is in You... abiding in You for Your glory... by faith... I want to do all I can... for You... as long as I can...