“If you call this living…”
I recently called a local hospital to check on a patient. An automated response started and I began working on something else. After a few minutes, it sounded like the same voice came on the phone and said something. Because it was the same voice, I wasn’t sure if the woman was still the automated response or if it was a live person. So, I asked, “Are you a live person?”
She responded, “If you call this living…”
She didn’t have the tone of voice suggesting she was joking, although she did not sound cynical or depressed either. “If you call this living…”
Well, she was alive. That’s living. She may not have been in the best of health, but she did feel well enough to be at work. That’s living. She had a job. That’s living. She came from somewhere which meant she had a family. That’s living. Surely working at a hospital she had some co-workers with which she was friends. That’s living.
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Just one phone call gave me five blessings this woman enjoyed. Maybe she needed to hear the lesson last Sunday on “The Good Life”. It really begins and ends with worship to God (Psalm 103:1-2; 20-22). If she worships God through Jesus Christ, then she lives the good life and she is “alive” in every sense of the word.
If she does not worship God through Jesus Christ, she is dead, even though she lives. Jesus is the Bread of Life (Jn 6:35). Jesus is the Light of Life (Jn 8:12). Jesus is the Author of Life (Acts 3:15). He came to give us newness of Life (Rom. 6:4) by obeying the law of the Spirit of Life (Rom. 8:2).
May you and I share the Word of Life (Phil. 2:16) that others may enjoy the resurrection of Life (Jn 5:29) and have their names written in the book of Life (Phil. 4:3) and thus wear the crown of Life (James 1:12).
–Paul Holland
