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The Christian’s All in All, February 28
But Christ is all, and in all.
Colossians 3:11
.
Christ, the precious Saviour, is to be the Christian’s all in all. Every
holy thought, every pure desire, every godlike purpose, is from Him who
is the light, the truth, and the way. Christ is to live in His representatives
by the Spirit of truth.... Paul says, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless
I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in
the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave
himself for me” (
Galatians 2:20
)....
Under the mighty impulse of His love He took our place in the universe
and invited the Ruler of all things to treat Him as a representative of the
human family. He identified Himself with our interests, bared His breast
for the stroke of death, took man’s guilt and its penalty, and offered in
man’s behalf a complete sacrifice to God. By virtue of this atonement
He has power to offer to man perfect righteousness and full salvation.
Whosoever shall believe on Him as a personal Saviour shall not perish but
have everlasting life.
Jesus identifies His interest with His chosen and tried people. He
represents Himself as personally affected with all that concerns them....
After presenting His relation to His people in various lights, He finally
declares that in the great day He will judge of every action as if it had
been done unto Himself.
His sympathy with His people is without a parallel. He will not
simply remain a spectator, indifferent to what His people may suffer,
but identifies Himself with their interests and sorrows. If His people are
wronged, maligned, treated with contempt, their sufferings are registered
in the books of heaven as done unto Him.
The privileges, the blessings, of the child of God are represented by
the apostle in the following language: “To whom God would make known
what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which
is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (
Colossians 1:27
). When we realize
that our hope of glory is Christ, that we are complete in Him, we shall
rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.
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