“Baseball is my life.” Overheard in a TV interview of a major league ball player. “I eat, live and sleep baseball.” For others it is their job or their family. For some young people, “My life is Justin Bieber.” Then there are those whose life is running marathons or cross country biking.
What is your life?
The apostle Paul writing to Christians says, “When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory” (Colossians 3:4). Christ was their life. They were all about Christ. They lived Christ, they ate Christ, they slept Christ. Christ was their all in all, the center, the focus. When they got up in the morning, Christ. When they walked through the day, Christ. When then laid down at night, Christ. When they died, Christ. When they lived, Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ was their life?
How about you? What is your life?
When the Lord Jesus saved my never dying soul He became the altogether lovely One, the Fairest among ten thousand to me. When He died on the cross, I died with Him and when He rose from the tomb, I rose with Him. The new life He gave me is to be Lived for His glory just as it is written: For to me to live is CHRIST!
Amen, brother Allister!
My life is being conformed to His image!
“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. (Matthew 6:25, 33 NKJV)