What is the Zoe Path?

John 10:10  NKJV  The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

As my pastor calls it - "the dividing line of the Bible", John 10:10.  If it involves stealing killing or destroying - that belongs to the thief, the enemy, whatever you'd like to call him.  If it involves life in overflow, that comes from the Jesus department. 

I've been meaning for some time to document why this journal is called "The Zoe Path".  The name came out of a time of fellowship while talking about God's provision with some friends after a Sunday service.  There are just some people that when I get talking to them, they just pull some of the best stuff out of me.  Literally is teaching me while I am uttering what I am impressed to speak.  It is so good.

So what is Zoe (pronounced zoh-ay)?  It is from the Greek and the most common teaching I've gotten on it from numerous sources is that it is "the God kind of life".  Sounds like a good life, right?  Absolutely!

This is straight from Vine's definition of Zoe as it is used and translated for "life" in John 10:10 and I like it:
...life in the absolute sense, life as God has it, that which the Father has in Himself, and which He gave to the Incarnate Son to have in Himself, John 5:26, and which the Son manifested in the world, 1 John 1:2.  From this life man has become alienated in consequence of the Fall, Eph. 4:18, and of this life men become partakers through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, John 3:15, who becomes its Author to all such as trust in Him, Acts3:15, and who is therefore said to be 'the life' of the believer, Col 3:4, for the life that He gives He maintains, John 6:35, 64.

It is the Eden existence that has been given back to us through Jesus - that is the Good News of the Kingdom. 

So what is the revelation already, right?  So when I was speaking with these friends it occurred to me that we oftentimes get so focused on getting our needs met we tend to put that in a primary position of concern.  We have this need, be it financial, health, or otherwise and we get focused on the need and the circumstance and we start blasting away with confessions at it and so on and so forth.

As citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven we are all given unique assignments to carry out as members of the body.  Jeremiah 29:11 makes that pretty clear.  We have been given the Holy Spirit as a guide to carrying out that role and as we spend time in the Word of God and being Spirit-led we walk it out.  The picture that I had as I was fellowshipping was of a person being fixed on following after the Lord and his purposes for that person's life.  And when I say fixed, I mean laser focused, unwavering, face set as flint, zeroed in on the prize.  Then as we journey down that path, all of the provision that we will ever need to carry out that plan of God for our lives will be all along that path meeting our every need, that we shall not want.  We will have green pasture to lie down in and still waters beside us.  (Seek First the Kingdom - Matthew 6:33)

Man, oh man, that is the life I want to live more fully as the days go on!  Walking toward doing the desire of my heart that God placed there as the Holy Spirit directs and knowing, trusting, having faith that God has got it covered.  I've stepped in, but I want more, oh so much more of this. 

Essentially that is what this is about, documenting these steps and the insights along this path.  That is the life that I desire to permeate my everyday.  The walking out of my days down a path that is full of life that leads to life.  Praise God!