“Christ, Who Is Our Life”

When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. - Colossians 3:4

    Our life consists of that which captivates our affections. Those things that we love, cherish, and hold dear to our heart are the center of our life. Our thoughts, time, and attention are drawn toward, and gravitate around, that which excites our senses and brings us pleasure. The Lord Jesus Christ and the things of God is the center, sum, and substance of the believer’s life. The apostle Paul said it this way; For to me to live is Christ (Phil 1:21).

    If Christ is not our life here, then when he shall appear, we will not be with him in glory. The believer does the things that he must do, to the end he can do that which he desires to do—that is to be taken up with the things of God. God has taught us, and is teaching us, that life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment (Lk 12:23). He does this by revealing the beauty of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ to our hearts, and keeping him ever before us. The child of God is not consumed with the things of the world. We are in the world but not of the world. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him (1 Jn 2:15).

    The people of God are committed to Christ and his church. Not just outwardly, but inwardly as well. To the believer duty becomes a privilege, and faithfulness a way of life. Christ, who is our life, is the strength by which we perform, and the zeal by which we accomplish, that which he works in us for his glory and our good. To those that know him, The Lord Jesus Christ is not just someone to save them from hell and take them to heaven; not just someone to heal them when they are sick; not just someone to rescue them from their troubles. He is their life!

    He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life (1 Jn 5:12).