Ole Henrik Skjelstad has a great post on John 11 today - verses I have been drawn back to again and again for the past 7 months. Talking with him I just understood that "I AM the resurrection and the Life." is a wild, dangerous, wonderful, lovely statement Jesus made. That he would for all time enable us to join him in I AM beliefs! and why two words used? don't they mean the same?? Not completely = 'resurrection' means coming back from the dead but 'LIFE' is of the absolute fulness of life, both essential and ethical, which belongs to God, and through him both to the hypostatic "logos" and to Christ in whom the "logos" put on human nature ... life real and genuine, a life active and vigorous, devoted to God, blessed, in the portion even in this world of those who put their trust in Christ, but after the resurrection to be consummated by new accessions (among them a more perfect body), and to last for ever! LIVE IT TODAY... be outrageous as Christ who before he laid his life down - took up the proclaimation "I AM" and actually ... YOU ARE!
SEE: http://crossingtheriver.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/mary-martha/
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