You know, people don’t die when they die physically only and always, often they die when they stop caring, when they stop trying, when they’re too tired to consider or command will and motion, when they have no desire to move forward in life. They die when life string has been cut beyond repair. It’s not the same as being stagnant. Obstacles, trials, tests, sicknesses, numerous life events might cause a person to be at a crossroad in life that could lead to being in a dilemma, of being stuck. With death however it happens gradually over decades of possibilities and impossibilities; because of these same life events and so much more a person can become cold, unfeeling, uncaring, unresponsive to human emotions till will itself has committed suicide within then death becomes physical. Even after multiple trauma throughout life, it really takes a great deal of pain for a person to become immovably dead to life, living and feeling life!
Yes, those that live feel life to live! Feeling life isn’t only the breath and heartbeat but it’s also gaining knowledge, progressing in it and the numerous daily encounters that nourishes one’s soul as we travel life’s roads. The journey becomes worth it as one gather memoirs throughout life’s path. But to die while alive happens when these minimal, nonchalantly futile, vain, pointless seeming acts cease to matter. At this point when they stop existing true and complete death occurs. Hence you could be a walking dead corpse and not realize it.
God created man a living, thinking, feeling as well as active being with a side of common sense you know, so to cease this or to be surrounded by others that murder these within the person is to die or to kill the inner person. Man has not been given the authority to decide who lives and who dies, they’ve taken that authority upon themselves but it’s not been given since grace overruled the law. If it were that simple or unimportant to kill or commit inner underlying suicide God would not have needed to send His only begotten Son Jesus for the Salvation of all humankind. It’s this grace that saved mankind from self-distortion, destruction and such. This grace has also the power to Jump-start a dying soul! Jesus is indeed the one that controls the heart, He really is the electric current that fibrillates the heart. He never misses a beat, how awesome is that? So to live in the shadow of His love is to honor and respect the sacrifice of His loving grace; and to remember that His royal blood that dripped onto the earth instantly changed the dying nature of mankind to His living DNA flow (activated and merged through the Risen Christ)! To live is to reverence God, to live Christlike is to uphold the gift of Salvation that His Royal blood so humbly sealed in us! It’s to honor the covenant, a costly alliance that stirred the very heavens to the deepest core of God’s heart.
MBM-Tine Brice