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How to live


Genesis 3:22 

22 And the Lord God said, “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil,

he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

 

How to live …

 

How can I being dead know about a living God?

How then to breathe and feel alive on death row?

How to die to myself ... and no more to fail

when He puts real life in me and saves my “soul”?

 

So now I live for Jesus ... am I willing to die for Him?

I know there is no death in me ... as it appears a contradiction.

God’s living proof resides within my structure.

The Spirit abides with me and keeps me from perdition.

 

If you want to know Him ... knock on my heart

and see the living proof ... of Who resides in me.

If you see some fake ... that’s how I used to be.

It is always hanging on ... to obstruct me being free.

 

Jan Wienen

 

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