Anything without life is dead. Sounds pretty elementary doesn't it? I've been pondering this topic the last couple days. A blog post for example... could have a ton of good content.. but if there is no personal edge in the writing.. if there is no sense of a "life" being experienced through the content.. it is just dead content. But when you come across a post that comes from the heart of someone living through an experience and sharing it, those words seem to be more real and meaninful. There is a life being lived out through the expression that gives it passion and value.

A singer could have tremendous skill and talent and sing a the most polished song without flaw..but if the person singing the song does not put themselves into the meaning of the words being said and sang.. then it is just a dead meaningless song.  We enjoy music that expresses our lives. Our feelings, our victories and our heart breaks. Songs with a real life behind them speak to us on that certain level that grips us emotionally and helps us connect to the very source of life coming from that song.

God's Word is the same to me. The bible is a wonderful book without question... but if I read it like just another book it makes little sense and has little to no affect on me. The text on the pages of that book are just text on the pages of that book. However when you receive the person of Jesus Christ and begin to find out who he is, and begin to let him unfold His character to you. Then the words suddenly have a life behind them. What was a dead letter becomes a love letter. An account of real passion, suffering and overcoming. Words that sing such an emotional song that they become interwoven in your life. So much so that as you experience day to day life you see yourself battling through the same things and finding solace within the remedies given from within those pages. There is a real, super real, life behind the words and it brings forth such a passion that causes it's life to be transferred in you. Like Adam meets Eve. Bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. They are  two, yet they are one because of that life source between them.

Now here I stand with newness of life where there was only death before and I become that valuable resource. The city on the hill for all to see. Will you be gripped by the life behind the song and be changed? Changed so much that no longer are you death without life.. but  live without death.