"I live by the Father"

Every mortal, if asked if he were alive, would presumably say "Yes." But if asked what makes him live, it is doubtful if many would be able to give a satisfactory reply. Or, if he should say that God gives him life, it is even more doubtful if he could explain just how God does so. All of which shows how much men have to learn about the most essential fact there is, namely, life. What is it? What causes and controls it? These are reasonable questions for which there must exist rational answers unless life be an unending enigma and its cause an impenetrable mystery.

Through the centuries there have been men and women, philosophers, poets, and religiously-minded persons, who have glimpsed something of what life is and have shared their discoveries with others. In the Bible are to be found the most helpful revealed truths concerning life, its spiritual and permanent meaning.

The man who really understood life, and understood it fully enough to prove the correctness of his knowledge, was Christ Jesus. In a serious talk in the synagogue one day he made the simple statement, "I live by the Father" (John 6:57). In five words, four of one syllable, one of two syllables, he answered the question on which men have cogitated and philosophized for centuries. To the vast majority of the human race this question still is unanswered because men have not more generally accepted the Master's words.

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