Jesus Our Life

 

Life: what is it? This is a question that many people have asked over the years. The dictionary says it is the existence of an individual being. Basically, for many people, life means simply existence.

 

In Genesis 2:7 it says, “Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.” Humans were created by God and God made humans living beings.

 

In John 14:6 Jesus says, “I am the way and the truth and the life.” Jesus says that He is our life. 

 

The Bible connects life with God. God is the one who gives us life and the one sustains our lives.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is knowing Jesus as our creator and the sustainer of our lives.

 

Colossians 3:3-4 says, “For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.”

 

Jesus is not just our Creator and Sustainer; He is also our life.

 

According to Luke 9:23 it means that we are to deny ourselves and take up our cross daily and follow Jesus.

According to John 14:23-24 it means to love and obey Jesus.

According to 2 Corinthians 11:3 it means having a sincere and pure devotion to Jesus.

According to Galatians 2:20 it means letting the resurrected life of Jesus be lived in us.  

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is letting Jesus be our life. 

 

How do we make Jesus our life?

 

Mark 12:30 Jesus tells us to love God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind and with all our strength.

 

Letting Jesus be your life means loving Jesus with all your heart – your will. We let Jesus be our life by letting Him direct our will. We make decisions by our will and we let Jesus be the authority that determines the direction of our lives.  

 

Letting Jesus be your life means loving Jesus with all your soul – your personality. We love Jesus with our emotions, our talents, our passions, our experience, our learned abilities; the things that make us, us.

 

Letting Jesus be your life means loving Jesus with all your mind – your intellect. 1 Corinthians 2:16 tells us that we have the mind of Christ. We have been given the ability to think and we are to let Jesus direct out thinking and understanding.

 

Letting Jesus be your life means loving Jesus with all your strength – your body. 1 Corinthians 6:20 tells us to honor God with our bodies. We don’t just intellectually agree with God; we also obey with the way we live.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is letting our whole life be directed by Jesus.

 

Everything that the world tells us about us and uses to define us are things that divide us.

 

Race

Nationality

Ethnic Background

Political Affiliation  

Financial Standing

Social Groups

 

Jesus tells us that we are all His creation. That truth can bring us together and bring unity to us.

 

We who have placed our faith in Jesus are His children and that makes us family.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is letting Jesus unite us in Him.

 

Let Jesus be our lives and come together as the Body of Christ to do the work of Jesus in the world.

 

With Jesus as Our Lives Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls,

                                             Joe