October 14
Discerning between life and death does not require a medical degree. Some things necessitate a doctor’s knowledge to recognize and skill to correct but the ability to differentiate between living, breathing life and stone cold death is not one of them.
In the natural realm, once the thin line between life and death is crossed, anyone can observe the transition—barring a miracle of God who can, if He wills, restore life to the one who is demised. In the spiritual realm, it is not always quite so obvious when the individual in question is not fully alive.
In the course of our daily lives, we walk among the dead. Some of us are the dead. We interact as though we were alive, we function as though we were alive, but the part of us that was created for eternity—our spirit—has not been reborn through belief in Christ as Savior so we are ‘dead men walking.’ We mouth the truths of scripture and tell it to others but don’t believe it ourselves.
Revelation 3:1 says, “I know your works, you have a reputation for being alive, but you are dead.” In the realm of the spirit, there are those who preach the gospel, pray for healing for the sick, see miracles abound in response to their prayers—they give every appearance of faith—but they are not living for Jesus. They are living for self-aggrandizement so there is no real life in them.
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