Living fully

I was reading yesterday on the way to Nashville. I was cruising through John (my wife was cruising through the traffic!) when the phrase jumped out that Jesus made that He came that we could live life fully. Suddenly, for what reason I don't know other than with the Spirit's help, that verse just screamed at me. It could have been that I was on the way to the hospital to have a spinal injection and was miserable and the idea of a full life appealed to me mightily right about then.

No doubt, as Jesus pointed out in the passage, Satan came to steal, kill and destroy - us and our lives but then Jesus came to give it back to me, but not just a tattered, scarred and torn up life but an abundant, full life. How have I been missing out? Could it be that it is because I haven't accepted it? Perhaps I have bought into the devil's ploy of telling me that this is as good as it is going to get. Right there, on the road to Nashville I decided that I was going to start right then reaching for the fuller life that Jesus brought to earth for me! I claim it for me. I invoke the name of Jesus in commanding Satan to let my life alone. I am going with the abundance promised by Jesus!