Alive?

And you has he made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins:

Eph 2:1

I'm not going cut corners today but, I'm going to ask a question and then give some thoughts. Here is the question.. Are we living as if we're Alive? 

Here is the definition of Alive, from Dictionary.com: 

 

Alive Definition:

1.having life; living; existing; not dead or lifeless.

2.living (used for emphasis): the proudest man alive.

3.in a state of action; in force or operation; active: to keep hope alive.

4.full of energy and spirit; lively: Grandmother's more alive than most of her contemporaries.

5.having the quality of life; vivid; vibrant: The room was alive with color.



From the definition above that is a no, we are not living as if we are Alive.
I mean we're not going into action as much as we should, we are not full of God's Spirit, and the lot of this would be okay if we were at least trying to pursue the things we're without but, a lot of us don't even care to be alive, much less run with the amazing gift of responsibility of being made Alive!
I had a dream a while back pertaining to this, here is a part of it...

Last night I came home and went back through my journals where I wrote down my dreams, and actually there was a part where we were living like we were Zombies. I can't go into my whole dream so I'll just tell you this part... there was this pool where if you swim in it you will die. The water is a symbol of darkness... for many times even though we are changed we choose to swim in lies, our past, things in this world, etc.


The people at this pool were happy but, it was a fake happiness based off of self desires, and other things. The thing this people did not know is that they were dying....

Also this people was afraid because God was calling them to a destiny but, they didn't like the unknown they liked the light of their own darkness because it is what they know.... they long to step into that place of truth and light but, because of lies, etc. they keep to them selves.

A spirit like a Zombie is settling... we are alive but, dead instead of dead but alive!


Dead but Alive - is where, we are dead in the holy things but, alive in everything else... We are alive but for many wrong reasons.

Alive but dead- means alive in the things of Heaven, but dead to the human sinful flesh! We can be alive if be choose to pursue and lay our life aside...because life comes when you die... I know sounds crazy!
 (From a message I sent.)


When I first set eyes on this I was reminded of my dream. God has made us Alive but, if we don't keep in check the responsibility of the life that has been given to us, we become desensitized, dead to the things of God. We must turn towards God, and keep pursuing Him to gain understanding to what Alive really means... we've lost the revelation of the word! What if we really had the full understanding of what Alive meant, and we walked that out? Get that picture in the front of your mind... Heaven on Earth. Because with being Alive in Him, that opens the doors to practically everything God longs for, and what we should be longing for ourselves!

Those are my thoughts...
(Not saying that we never long for these things, I know in our heart of hearts we do... but, let's be honest with ourselves do we actually jump out of bed and say; "I want to heal someone today, or pray for an hour, and perhaps even longer than that!" A lot of the time we don't... and that's what I'm saying, that we would push a little harder at being Alive.)