New Life
Monday, October 11
New Life
Then Jesus took her by the hand and said in a loud voice, “My child, get up!” Luke 8:54
What an amazing story! Jesus restores a young girl back to life from the place of death. You may be thinking ‘What life was it that she received from Jesus?’ Was it a new form of her previous existence, a continuation of the old, or something completely different? So far as I can see from the account in Luke her spirit returned (her human spirit that is) to enable her to resume her human existence. Whether she had a spiritual rebirth we’re not told. There’s no evidence to suggest this. So her new life was really a resumption of the old, but this new life was resumed under the empowering and authority of the intervention of Jesus. This weekend I had a similar experience. On the first night of our Convention the speaker said we were going to conceive and that we surely did. My life and yours too can be like this young girl in Luke 8 revived to God’s new beginnings.
When we are raised up with Jesus, through faith, as symbolized in believer’s baptism, we’re given ‘newness of life’. Paul also tells us that we’re being ‘renewed and transformed into Christ’s likeness’ (2 Corinthians 3:18). In Christ we’re in a new relationship with the Father and thus, in effect, new creations (2 Corinthians 5:11).
Jesus said,
Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from with them. — John 7:38
When we experience personal, perpetual revival, our faith is revived, our love is stronger, our faces are more joyful, our enthusiasm is more contagious, and our individual ministries are empowered. Today as you step into your new beginning I pray that you are experiencing a spiritual revival like never before.