What kind of life?

This morning as I was picking up and starting the laundry, I cranked up the music on the stereo. I had put on a few of my favorite CDs to keep me motivated: Jeremy Camp, Casting Crowns, and Stephen Curtis Chapman. I know the words, so its easy to sing along without really hearing the song. But at one point the words entered my thought, "these are the signs of life..."
Breathing? Heart beat? Brain waves? Eating and growing? No, I decided. There is definitely more to life than that.

When I sat down to spend time in the Word this morning, I felt I needed to search a deeper meaning of the word "life". I looked the word up in my concordance and found Luke 12:22,23.
" Do not worry about your life...Life is more that food, and the body is more than clothing" I noticed that the word "life" was in there twice and wondered if it might have two different meanings in the original Greek, so I looked that up, too.

Well one thing led to another and I found out that in the Greek language there is more than one word that is translated as "life". There is the word, "psuche" which can be translated as "soul"; it means that immaterial part of us that makes us living beings. And there is the word,"bios" which is our physical life, the breathing, beating, thinking part of us. And yet another, "zoe", which is life in the spirit; spirit is that within us that allows us to commuicate with God. Jesus speaks of this "life" in John 6:63, " ...the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life."

What kind of life do I want to be living? Bios? merely walking around, breathing? OR Zoe? being alive in my spirit! Walking with God, having the breath of life! This is what Jesus wants for me, too.