What can we expect of life? How long will it be and how good? Are its length and quality determined by genes and the law of averages? A dictionary defines life expectancy as "the statistically probable length of time that a typical individual can be expected to live." These statistics are the result of actuarial projections and averages based on the year in which a person was born, whether one is female or male, and so on.
Yet through spiritual sense we know that God is Life—our Life—and that as man, His expression, we are complete, free, limitless, spiritual. This is our true identity, our only identity.
But, you say, that is a totally spiritual concept. Is it reasonable to expect that our lives here and now can express such a concept—can unfold and develop without limit, and not decline? Indeed it is; but we need to learn more of God as our Life and practice what we understand in order to expect and evidence constant progress. Christ Jesus said, "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." John 17:3.
