Man A Live 🙌💓

Who really knows where the true origins of that exclamation: "Man Alive"?

Something about it sounds stark and fitting of exclamation though.

In one sense, it conjures up the imagery of a sailor who may have been swept overboard by ill winds and high seas... and then much to the surprize of the crew... gets spotted, alive.

Thinking more about it, such a miraculous feat is undoubtedly cause for great rejoicing and is also reminiscent of what is evoked when we witness someone who we thought was lost to the treacherous winds of life and the rough and choppy challenges of its sojourn, is seen again, not in a state of death, but having turned to Christ and received life... Man Alive!

Many of us have been there... lost.

This means that many of us know well the journey away from there and towards the hope of rescue.

Having traversed that path then, as children of God, we carry the onus of sharing the good news of the ready availability of salvation... and not just that God's rescue and redemption is able to give life, but also to maintain life more abundantly.

Y'see, it's great to have life... but that is not a means to an end in and of itself.

Life isn't just for having... heaven forbid!

As the old adage goes... Life is indeed for living.

Let us then endeavour to make the most of it every day. Let us number our days so that we can prioritize what and who we should.

Let us fulfil, to the maximum, the potential of this life we've each been given, by feeding and nurturing that drive to help others achieve the full potential of the life in Christ that God wants them to have.

We should never get so caught up in our own existence that we have no time to carry out this God-given mandate.

Great is the joy to witness the seeds of your contribution sprout fruit in the life of another.

Help someone then to find and live that rescued, liberated, purpose-driven life.

It's great to know seh man alive... but it's even greater to know seh Man A Live.