Much of our life is lived in a state of being called, “as though.” Some have extreme imagination. Others have acute disappointment. Still others live oblivious to what happens around them.
As though we could change!
For centuries, perhaps even millenia, the human race has wondered what would happen if . . .
Working with drugs and alcohol addictions counselors, the recovery rate is low, the kill rate is high! Watching the current global greed, the recovery rate is low, the kill rate is high! Remembrance Day just reminds us that the recovery rate is low, the kill rate is high!
But what if we lived as though we were dead? What if we lived as though we could not change ourselves? What if we lived only through one who lives because he showed that in his death there was a power to bring life?
The constant lifting of dead limbs, dead dreams and dead desires into dynamic action comes when we are willing to live as though Jesus lived in us. Not in the sense of “maybe”, but in the Biblical sense of confidence – an assurance that when we place our trust in Jesus to live through us we inherit a new life. And now we live “as though!”