El Hayyay: God of my Life

Psalm 42:8 (NRSV) By day the Lord commands His Steadfast Love, 

and at night His Song is with me, 

a prayer to the God of my life.

Psalm 42:8 (NLT) But each day the Lord pours His Unfailing Love upon me, 

and through each night I sing His Songs, 

praying to God who gives me life.

Life is associated with light, gladness, fullness, order and activity 

and is generally contrasted with darkness, sorrow, emptiness, chaos and 

a silence that is characteristic of death and inanimateness. 

Our life as a Christian is one of being brought out of darkness 

into the Light of Christ by the Living God Who is El Hayyay—God of my life. 

The Bible is full of references to life coming after death … 

whether it refers metaphorically to being lifted out of the miry clay (Psalm 40:2) 

or to having new life breathed into our spiritually dead bones (Ezekiel 37:5) 

or to God’s Holy Spirit breathing life into us at Pentecost (Acts 2:4).

God is the Living God and has granted Jesus to have life in Him (John 5:26) 

and to bring life to humanity (John 10:10). 

Jesus is ‘the Bread of life,’ (John 6:48) 

‘the Light of life,’ (John 8:12)

‘the Resurrection and the Life,’ (John 11:25)

‘the Way, and the Truth, and the Life’ (John 14:6). 

We have life because we have chosen life IN Jesus Who is 

the God of Life—El Hayyay.