The Son and Life

1 John 5:11-12 "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life."

It is very important to be reminded at times of the simplicity of the Gospel and the Christian life. Too often we see people get caught up in specific doctrines while losing sight of the simple truths that led to them to Christ in the first place. There is nothing wrong with studying and knowing biblical, sound doctrine. However, our "first love" comes from a simple Gospel, a simple Truth.

True life can only be found in one place - the Son of God. Nowhere else. Life, not as the world gives, but as the Father gives.

Life: "of the absolute fulness of life, both essential and ethical, which belongs to God, and through him both to the hypostatic "logos" and to Christ in whom the "logos" put on human nature."

Life: "real and genuine, a life active and vigorous, devoted to God, blessed, in the portion even in this world of those who put their trust in Christ, but after the resurrection to be consummated by new accessions (among them a more perfect body), and to last for ever."

Today, can I return to the simplicity of my life in Christ? Rest peacefully, content in the knowledge that I have the Son, I have life.