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have come that they may have life. John 10:10
If, on the one hand,
eternal Life operates to cut us off from our natural life as the basis of our
relationship with God, on the other hand, it is perfectly wonderful what is
done. It is "the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes." The Lord
even comes in as our physical life to the doing of more than would have been
possible to us at our best, and certainly far beyond the present possibility,
because He has made us know that as men we are nothing, even at our best. Life
does that. Life forces off one system and brings on another, making room for it
as it goes.
That, I believe is what
the Lord meant when He said, "I am come that they might have life, and
that they might have it more
abundantly" (John 10:10). We have thought that just to
mean that we are to have abundance of exuberance. We are always asking for life
more abundant that we might feel wonderfully elated and overflowing and
energetic. The Lord is preeminently practical, and more abundant Life means
that, having Life, you will find the need of more to lead you a little further,
and you will need it abundantly as you go on, because that Life alone can bring
you into the fullness. And it is His will that there should be the full
provision of Life unto the full end, because the purpose is such an abundant
purpose. The Life is commensurate with the purpose.
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