“It’s not the years in your life…….

It’s the life in your years!”

I saw that written twice in big coloured letters in the the local paper recently. (Northern News, July 1, 09) and I like it. I like it very much, because it is actually my story.

I remember very vividly the second of September 1958 in my life. I was eighteen years of age at that time. Until then the almost nineteen years in my life did not have any life in them. (It took me some time to realise that!)

Why? Why did they not have any life in them? Because I did not know the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour.

But after the second of September 1958 I had life in my years, the Lord Jesus Christ!

I remember also something else from that time: Near the place where we lived (Bottrop, in Germany near Essen in the Ruhr – District) was a cemetery and just about in the middle of the cemetery was some kind of a monument with a cross and the writing on that monument was from the Gospel of John, John 11:25-26:

“I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

Also in the Gospel of John, in John 10:10 the Lord Jesus Christ says: “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” Please read also what the Lord says in John 5:39-40!

Do you have years in your life or do you have life in your years?