Get A Real Life!

Have you ever heard the expression “Get a real life”? It doesn’t mean to find something that is truly alive, but rather to increase your existence beyond the boring. To get out of the fantasy world, to go do something different, something that stirs the mind, body and soul, something better than just existing, a “real” life. I think this is an interesting concept, one that Paul touches on in Acts 17:28.

               In that passage, he tells the people in the midst of the Areopagus that in the One True God “we live and move and have our being”. He’s not just the one that make us alive, not just the one keep the world spinning, but the one that makes us who we are. Our lives are just more than breathing air going about our daily tasks, but the completeness of ourselves as his creation. Only with God can a life be complete. That is why Jesus could promise an “abundant life” in John 10:10. Worldly living may be a life, but only in God is it a real life.