Our Child Called Life

I thought I would bring this older post (poem) of mine forward since this is the Christmas season that celebrates the birth of that first Christ Child...."but to as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God." We are joint heirs, equal heirs with him in Life as he brings many sons to glory.

Joy to your world,
Karen

Our Child Called LIFE

To the bride (soul) He says:“Marriage is pure and my bed undefiled.
And born from our union shall be our child called LIFE!”
Vision of lovliness, our child called LIFE,
With wisdom as its Mother and Spirit as Father, how could it be any other?

To the groom He says:“For this reason shall a man leave Mother and Father,
And be joined to his wife forsaking all others.”
She is now bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh,
And together in their child is where they mesh.

Never a man spake like this man,
Wooing His bride, who is the soul in each man.
Wooing with Love’s Word, the eternal, “I forgive.”
Saying, “Rise up, my Fair One, and come live.”

ALL FOR THE PURPOSE OF A BIRTH, you see,
The child of Loves union of the Christ and me.
Only once before in earth’s history came this rare birth,
Of, Jesus, God’s love-child sent to this earth.

Just as Eliezer once was sent as servant to find
A wife for Isaac to preserve this blood line.
The Seed of great promise, the child so sublime.
Born in our hearts by His love divine.

Now all of Earth’s history stands to its feet,
Awaiting on tiptoe the magnitude of this great feat.
A child no longer in isolation low born,
But a man riding on white horse with his righteous throng.

Lo, the one has become many, His generation so strong.
All because His wife has borne Him a son.
God and His wife did ponder and say,
“What shall we call Him on His birthday?”

The labor was so long, two days you well know.
The birthpangs so intense, we feared death we’d not miss.
What could be more appropriate than LIFE this child to call.
The hope of all men who experienced the fall.

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The proud parents, Spirit and Wisdom
announce the birth of their child:

Full name: LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY

Time of Birth: THE DAY OF THE LORD

Weighing in: FULLGROWN

Height: FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING

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"The Greek word zoe is the word used throughout the New Testament for the God kind of life. There are three primary Greek words translated “life” in the New Testament. Zoe is the first, always used when speaking of divine and spiritual life. Then there is psuche, denoting natural, soulish, or human life. The third is bios, meaning the affairs of this world and our living in it. Jesus declared that He came into the world for one purpose — “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (Jn. 10:10). The Greek word translated “life” in this verse is zoe. This eternal life He came to give us is the very nature of God! “For as the Father hath life (zoe) in Himself; so hath He given to the Son to have life (zoe) in Himself” (Jn. 5:26). And again, “In Him was life (zoe); and the life (zoe) was the light of men” (Jn. 1:4). By His zoe life God imparts His very nature, essence, substance, and being into our human spirits! Zoe, then, means what we call eternal life, or God’s life, or divine life. This new kind of life is that which quickens the human spirit, awakening us and making us alive unto God!

Only the life that is both divine and eternal can be counted as life, for every other kind of life ends in death. Only life which is immortal can be considered life, for that which is immortal is unchangeable; it remains the same and continues living even after passing through any kind of blow or destruction. A life which is subject to any change, weakness, or death is neither unchangeable, indestructible, immortal, nor eternal. Such cannot be considered life! Only that which is divine, the God quality of life, is truly life. Though a man might claim that he has put on immortality in his body and will never physically die, if his body is still capable of being splattered on the highway by a Mack truck, he obviously does not have life reigning in his body! Even Jesus could die physically, until He came forth in the power of resurrection in a body possessed by divine life. That divine body could pass through any kind of blow or destruction without being affected in any way. He could pass right through the wall, appear and disappear, and nothing could overcome Him. What does it mean to have life? It means to have God Himself! Life is a mighty power! We will know the full power of that life when we have come to live fully out of that life"

Quote from J. Preston Eby