Day 306: Luke 23:45 - John 1:20

In the first part of chapter 24, we read the story of the women looking for Jesus at the cemetery. As they get closer and speak with the angel, he says something that I think has so much power for our generation - "Why seek ye the living among the dead?" This question has so much relevance and could be used in so many different circumstances in todays' society but in this post, I would like to bring up a more controversial area where many seek life among the dead - church. I can't help but be amazed by the fact that even in today's "cutting-edge" "hi-tech" "progressive" society, so many groups of believers are stuck in a religion that has nothing to do with life in Christ, but rather has everything to do with a life of rules and traditions. Our Father is offering us a blessed relationship with Him full of life to the fullest, but we will never find it following a dead religion based on rules and traditions. If we are truly seeking the living, we must leave the cemeteries of religion and step into the life-filled glory of a true, living relationship with our Heavenly Father.

- Father, open my eyes to the life that You have to offer and give me the strength to refuse the death of tradition and legalism and to take hold of the life You offer through a genuine relationship with You. -