The Offer is LIFE

First, a few quotes...(my thoughts & questions in bold).

I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. Jesus, from John 10:10.

I must say that I have always been intrigued by this. Intrigued isn't the best word. Excited is better. Curious is another one. I realized that I didn't always see LIFE in those who claimed to be followers of Jesus. What gives?

When we hear the words eternal life, most of us tend to interpret that as "a life that waits for us in eternity." But eternal means "unending," not "later." The offer is life, and that life starts now (12).

God intends life for you. But right now that life is opposed. It doesn't just roll in on a tray. There is a thief. He comes to steal and kill and destroy. In other words, yes, the offer is life, but you're going to have to fight for it because there's an Enemy in your life with a different agenda (13).

Why is it that I continue to forget this? Or perhaps it's that I haven't really ever known or believed it.

Until we come to terms with war as the context of our days we will not understand life. We will misinterpret 90 percent of what is happening around us and to us. It will be very hard to believe that God's intentions toward us are life abundant; it will be even harder not to feel that somehow we are just blowing it. Worse, we will begin to accept some really awful things about God (17).