Life Abundantly

KMR wanted to know if I’d post something on what she told me earlier this evening.

OK, I’ll bite.

She was thinking about the curse of the Fall, and how as a result our work is toil. If Adam hadn’t sinned he, and us in him, would have earned life. Work without toil is what we would have. But we don’t. However, the new heavens and earth will be like that life we lost. That’s motivation for hoping Christ will come soon.

And she’s right. In Adam we could have had life, but instead in Adam we all died. But in Christ we are made alive, and in Him we have not just the life we lost, but life more abundant. The first Adam became a living being, but the second Adam became a life-giving spirit.

I once heard someone say that if in six days God made the heavens and the earth, and all good and perfect, how much more wonderful will be the place He has been preparing for us ever since?

Maranatha!