Top Priority

“He is before all things” And why is this? Because He was before all things; all things were created by and for Him. All things consist because of Him. All things in our universe would fall apart without Him. And so will it be in an individual’s life. He is the only one who can keep things together, whether it is the world, a church, our family, or a person’s life. If Christ is not first of all, then He is nothing at all!

The turning point in this world’s history was when it went from B.C. to A.D. Thus it was in the life of the apostle Paul. Before Christ, he simply existed, but after he met the risen Son of God, his testimony was “Christ... is [my] life.” If one used contemporary vernacular in telling Paul to, “Get a life,” his reply, I’m sure, would have been, “I have!” Christ was the very breath he breathed. When Christ became his all, he found his all.

The world’s Christ is good, but the Christ of the Lord is God. A good man is limited in how much he can do for another; the God-Man knows no limitations. And that my friend, is why I say with the great apostle, “For me to live is Christ.”

Richard D Sandlin