Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
John 14:6
Discrimination is alive and well in regards to dead people. They’re not allowed in any movie theater and they won’t be served if they go into a restaurant. Dead people make living people feel uncomfortable and besides, they don’t smell very nice. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the spiritually dead don’t go to heaven.
The Apostle Paul told the believers in Ephesus: “And you He has made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1). This world is full of people who are physically alive, but dead to God. They don’t respond to anything when He tries to communicate to them.
People can be very smart and have advanced degrees, but if they are spiritually dead, they’ll never understand things that are spiritually discerned. There is far more evidence for intelligent design than there ever was for evolution, but many scientists never see it, because they are spiritually dead. They have eyes but can’t see the advanced engineering. They have ears but can’t hear the still small voice of God trying to get through. Their spirit is dead and they don’t even know it.
Something that is dead can never decide to become alive, because dead things can’t do anything. However, if Christ, the giver of life, chooses, He can give life to someone that has none. Just ask Lazarus about that.
I have an old pair of leather gloves. It is nothing more than pieces of a dead cow that someone has sown together. For the most part, those gloves just sit in a box and do nothing, but if I want, I can give them life. By slipping my hands in them, they begin to move, work, and respond. There is now life in them, where there hadn’t been any before.
When Christ enters a person, everything changes. Old things pass away; everything becomes new. He moves from death unto life (2 Corinthians 5:17).
May 15
