Daily Lesson for January 24, 2018

Today’s Daily Lesson comes from John chapter 5 verses 25 and 26:

25 “Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.26For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.”

Behold, a mystery: In Christ there is the power to raise us from spiritual death into life eternal.

We say that Christ is “sui generis” — meaning He has a life in and unto His own. There is in Christ the mystery of creation and recreation. We are made new in knowing Christ. As Paul said, “If anyone is in Christ then a new creation has come,” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

As I say, this is all a mystery. We cannot say how exactly a person is made new spiritually— regenerated in Christ. We cannot diagram it. But neither can we do the same with physical life. One moment there is no life; and the next moment there is. It is mystery; it is miracle. 

And miracles do happen. People who were dead in their trespasses and sins are suddenly made new — coming out of darkness with the light of life looking out from their eyes. It is a miracle and we don’t know how it happens but people were lost and then found, blind and then seeing, dead but made alive again.

The Son has life in himself. There is more life in Him than there is death in us. It is a mystery to behold and it cannot be explained but suddenly as the hymn says, “hearts unfold like flowers before Him.”  My heart!

Thanks be to God!