Wed Inspiration

Morning Inspiration with Pastor Merritt

The great Christian thinker, C.S. Lewis put it best when he put it this way –

“Bios (biological) life is that life that comes to us from below from nature. The life that is always telling you to run down and decay and needs to be nourished constantly with air, water, and food. Spiritual life (zoe) on the other hand is the life which is God from all eternity, which has always existed and will always exist… The difference between having bios and zoe is like the difference between a statue and a man. A man who changed from having bios to zoe would have gone through as big a change as a statue which changed from being a car statue to being a real man… [Jesus] came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of life only He has…”

As you get older you will find that you get more concerned about the quality of your life than you do the quantity of your life. When you are young, your goal for life is more quantity. When you are young, you want to live a long time – you want a long life. It is about quantity. As you get older, you realize the goal shouldn’t be a long life, but the goal should be a good life. It is not about quantity, but it is about quality. It is what Mickey Mantel meant when he was lying on his deathbed and he said, “If I’d known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself.”

That raises the question, “Then, what is life? If there is more to life, what is this more?” The best way I think to understand that is to go back and look at what Jesus gave these disciples. If these disciples had not experienced something totally unique and totally different from anything else life had offered them up until the time they met Jesus they would have never stayed with Jesus. They not only stayed with Jesus, but they lived for Jesus and they died for Jesus.