Living Things

Substance

Genesis 7:4  

Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”

Genesis 7:23  

Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left and those with him in the ark.

Bread

John 6:51  

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

Sacrifice

Romans 12:1-2  

1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.

2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Way

Hebrews 10:20  

By a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,

John 14:6  

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Thoughts:

.. Is commitment easy? No, it is worth all it requires.

.. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time”…Thomas Edison.