What is life?

I have asked myself many times what does it mean to be alive? What does it mean to live? This is the thought process to how I have answered these questions. God was the beginning of life. There was none before him and there will be none after him. He spoke life into existence and molded man out of sand. That was the beginning. John 15:I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. Well thats pretty simple. My destiny in life is to be a branch. There are two kinds of branches, the one who attached to the vine or the one who falls to the ground. The one who abides in God produces much fruit, and the one who falls to the ground can do nothing.

The bottom line is that God is the only true source of life. You say but I am alive now and that is separate from God. Well you may be alive now but the wages of sin is death. The only way to remove sin is through God so therefore with a simple mathematical equation we can conclude that YOU+SIN=DEATH or that (YOU+GOD)-SIN=LIFE.

True life can only be experienced through a RELATIONSHIP with Christ. If you go to church on Sunday twice then once on Wednesday and never give any other time to GOD then its not a relationship. A relationship is an everyday constantly ongoing experience that I have been blessed with. Through my relationship in Christ I live everyday with happiness and joy. Now don't get me wrong, I do get upset and I do get down but my God is so much bigger than any problem I could ever experience that when I think of his love and grace and how many times he has come looking for me when I was hiding from him it makes me smile. It gives me a joy inside that no theory, man, law, or force in this world can take away. And that right there...is truly living.