To the full. Est.

First of all, an apology. I only just realised that I forgot to do my post yesterday, which I am extremely embarrassed about. Hopefully, this will be a one-time occurrence, though somehow I doubt it. Anyway, on with the actual blog post thing.

At church this Sunday past, in the evening service, there was a bit of a thing about living life to the full. Now, that's a phrase that you do hear fairly often, even in a non-religious sense, usually from young guys pumped up on adrenaline who are trying to get you to do some death-defying stunt with them. However, this isn't quite in the same context. This is in quite a Biblical context - the second half of John 10:10, to be precise. "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." These were words from Jesus. So the idea is, that Jesus didn't just come to take all our sins away. That was just the process, so to speak, that is needed to get to the final product - a life that is lived to the full.


Strangely enough, Jesus didn't actually talk about salvation too much. He talked a heck of a lot more about what happened afterwards - and about God's Kingdom. That's what he was really on about. It's like a bridge between one cliff and another cliff - it's an amazing feat in itself, to be sure, but it's not there to be admired. It's there for you to get to the other side, for you to get to that other place. That's what Jesus did. Him dying on the cross was that bridge. But he doesn't want us to linger or focus too much on that. He doesn't really want us to be constantly thinking about all our sins, and constantly coming to Him to ask Him to make it better. Yes, a bit of that is good - but if you keep doing it, it's like you just go onto the bridge, then go back to the side that you came from. He wants you to go over. It's difficult, but it's worth it. It always is with Him, though it can often be pretty hard to see it.