"Christ Is All!"
Colossians 3:11
No one understands Holy Scripture who does
not know the meaning of these three words - "Christ is all!" In all the eternal purposes of God, "Christ is all" (Rom.
However, in the context in which this
statement is found (Col. 3), Paul is talking about the new creation, the church
and
Is that statement an exaggeration of the
truth? Is it an overstatement of the facts? Not at all.
I know that in the lives of God's saints upon the earth there is always a
struggle between the flesh and the Spirit, between sin and righteousness,
between the old man and the new man, between self and Christ. I know that so
long as we live in this world we cannot attain that which we seek. We cannot, in
this body of flesh, attain perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus Christ, but
that is what we seek! Now that which a person seeks above all else and to the
ever increasing exclusion of all else is his all. That for which a person is
willing to sacrifice, and in his heart has sacrificed everything, is his all.
For every true believer that one object of
desire, that one Pearl of great price, that one glorious Prize, compared with
which nothing else is of any value, is Christ! Job said, "The root of the
matter is found in me" (Job
Don Fortner