The Life Transplant

            

            So, we know of organ transplants of different kinds, but I’m sure that no earthly physician has ever done a life transplant. So what-the-heck am I talking about; well I saw the movie “My sister’s Keeper” sometime ago and the plot was about a couple with a daughter diseased with cancer, who through in-vitro fertilization “developed” another child, as a genetic match for her elder sister, who was in-essence supposed to be her spare-part bank, where they occasionally got compatible blood and tissue from to keep her elder sister alive, well long-story-short is that things got complicated and the girl eventually died of cancer. Sad isn’t it!

            But my point is this: As Our natural lives depend on the presence and use of air, water and food without which we wouldn’t be alive, in the same way; our spirits are also dependent on the presence of God in us, without that holy presence in us, a void is created that nothing else can fill.

            See, man was diseased by the original sin, and he died when he ate from that tree of good and evil, you can’t survive for up to 3 mins without air, your spirit also dies immediately God is absent; it was made to be dependent on the true God, even the atheist can’t deny the hunger for something more than the ordinary.

            So Jesus came as a 'genetic match' for us, fully God and fully man, so He died and gave up His Spirit, our sins met the claims of divine justice on the Cross, and He resurrected to secure our redemption.

            You see, those that receive Him, by believing on Him as the resurrected lord; receive the very life that Jesus carried i.e. the very life of God. It’s a life transplant: the dead carcasses of our spirits are now revived by the Spirit that He gave to dwell in us. Adam, had the life of a perfect man, and he lost that when he sinned, [so Mr Perfect died in Eden; (ladies stop looking for him!)] but via this new life, we become much more than perfect men; we become gods:

“I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.”

Ps 82:6

            Yes, God said it and He meant it! I don’t know about you, but this speaks to me about my heavenly Father, who values me as much as His own life, in that He laid it down for me. I’m not sure I’ll ever figure out why He did, but I’m eternally grateful that He did. Hallelujah!

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Jn 3:16