Yahshua said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me will live, even though he dies."
~John 11:25
Everyone who believes has already been born again. Born from where? Born from above, into God's family, into the Heavenly realms. Anyone who believes is, spiritually speaking, existing in two places at once - both here and in Heaven.
We've been instructed to pray that way: "on earth as it is in Heaven". Our new birth is a reason for that! Don't you know who you are? You are a perfected, forgiven child of God.
From the first moment of belief onward, you've been hidden away. You've been hidden with Messiah, hidden within God - hidden in a place of shelter and peace. You've been born into the most secure place possible. From the moment you first believed, you've been resurrected.
Every believer has entered into resurrection life. You have entered into an inescapable God. The evil one, the accuser, "touches you not". And he can't touch you, because there's endless amounts of God between the two of you! There's no more pain for you after this new birth, only the appearance of punishment.
In this new life, the passing of time loses much of it's meaning. We're free to live in the now. We're free to be instead of do; being instead of doing. The past doesn't hold us down, and the future doesn't worry us. Instead, both the past and the present and the future give us hope.
Life becomes timeless, and we find ourselves on a very "ancient path" without really knowing how we got there. We find ourselves in a place that feels at once very old and very new - a place that's being renewed daily. Eternity is now.
Sometimes we forget that Yahshua was our bridge into, well, everything, in this new life that He payed the price to provide. Yet it is the Son of God Himself that becomes our marker of events, and all of time is bound up in a single moment where we realize that we know Him. The passing of time grows strangely dim, and we may no longer perceive it like we once did.
"To live" ceases to become measurable by our cosmic props of times and seasons. "To live" becomes a person - Jesus. To live is Christ, and to die is even better. Time becomes swallowed up by the limitless, unchanging essence of God.
Heavenly Father, set us free from the perceived constraints of time, from the constraints of our habits and schedules, and let us enter in to unbroken fellowship with You today.
"Now this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent."
John 17:3
