We may have two lives. First, our own life inherited from our parents and given us by our Creator. That life has some value, but how soon it fails and feels the forces of disease, decay, and approaching death!

But we may have another life, or rather the Life of Another—the life also of Jesus. How much more valuable and transcendent is this life! It has no weakness nor decay nor limitation. Jesus has a physical life as real as ours, and infinitely greater; He is an actual man with a glorified body and a human spirit. And that life belongs to us just as much as the precious blood He shed and the spiritual grace He bestows. He has risen and ascended as our living Head, and He is ever saying to us, “Because I live, ye shall live also” (John 14:19 KJV).

Why should we limit Him to what we call the spiritual realm? His resurrection body has in it all the vitality and strength that our mortal frame can ever need. Someday He is to raise us from the dead by virtue of that resurrection life. Why should it be thought a strange thing if faith may now foredate its inheritance and claim in advance part of its physical redemption—a little handful of the soil of that better country—just as a seed is to bring forth more glorious fruit?

This was Paul’s experience. Why may it not be ours? There was a day at Lystra when, under a shower of stones, Paul’s life was ebbing out and he was left for dead outside the city gates. Then it was that the life also of Jesus asserted itself, and, calmly rising up in the strength of his Master, he walked back through the streets whose stones were stained by his own blood and quietly went on his way preaching the Gospel as if nothing had happened.

The secret of this life is to live so close to Jesus that we shall breathe His very breath and ever be in touch with His life and love. So let us live by Him. Healing is in His living body. We receive it as we abide in Him. We keep it only as we abide in Him. A. B. SIMPSON

There are miraculous possibilities for the one who depends on God.