Resurrection

Have you ever felt dead? I am not talking about physically dead I'm talking about spiritually dead, emotionally dead. Have you asked yourselves questions like; why am I here? Is this all there is? How does what I do make a difference?

Recently, I have learned that life requires ACTION! I have learned that things like happiness, love, comfort, etc. are feelings and emotions that just come naturally to our hearts. We don't work for them. We don't think about them. They are just there. And, because these feelings and emotions are so readily available to us we have become lazy! Yeah, you heard me...we are L-A-Z-Y!

The greatest things in life are only received through action. They are not just handed over to us on silver platters. They are things that we must dig our heels in and push forward to obtain. We must hit the floor running every single day with determination and perseverance or else we will continue day after day searching for those "feelings."

"But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control." Galations 5:22-23 (NLT) None of these things are feelings. Every single one of them can only be obtained by an action. We must show love to other people. We must put a smile on our face to show joy. We must stop fighting to have peace. We must breathe and show someone for the millionth time to have patience. We must help someone to show kindness. We must choose right instead of wrong to have goodness. We must never forsake Him to have faithfulness. We must not be harsh to have gentleness and we must calm ourselves to have self-control. All of these things require action. They aren't just given to us!

And, life. Well it isn't given to us either. We must choose to have it! We walk around dead until we have that moment when the Holy Spirit knocks on the door of our heart. We choose to open our heart and accept Jesus as our Savior! We choose to be resurrected! We choose to have eternal life! “...I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die." John 11:25-26 (NLT)

I wonder what would have happened if Lazarus would have just laid there. What if he had chosen not to get up? What if he didn't act on Jesus' call to him? "Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!” And the dead man came out..." John 11:43-44 (NLT).

How many miracles have we missed because we didn't act on them? How many things have we missed out on because we didn't act on Jesus' call to us?