April 20 – Where Do You Find Life?

April 20 – Where Do You Find Life?

“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. There is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that his testimony to me is true. You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the truth. Not that I accept such human testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved. He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. But I have a testimony greater than John’s. The works that the Father has given me to complete, the very works that I am doing, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen his form, and you do not have his word abiding in you, because you do not believe him whom he has sent.

“You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that testify on my behalf. Yet you refuse to come to me to have life. I do not accept glory from human beings. But I know that you do not have the love of God in you. I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; if another comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God? Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?” (John 5:31-47)

When it comes right down to it, we try everything before we finally come to the realization that it is only in Jesus that we find life!  We try church and if we don’t like one, we’ll try another.  We look for life in our work, in our families, in our recreation.  We hope to find life in our homes, our cars, our things.  We look for life in the approval of others and define ourselves by our successes and our failures.  We look for life in books by Christian authors and Bible study teachers. When that doesn’t fulfill us, we look to other spiritual leaders. We look everywhere we think we are supposed to look …

…then we realize – all we ever needed was Jesus.  He is where we find our life.

In Him alone can we find life.