He's My Everything!

“Christ is all, and in all”

(Col. 3:11)

Squeezed into these six small words is the Apostle Paul’s encyclopedic creed. Of the ninety-five verses found in this little letter, Christ is mentioned no fewer than eighty times. The whole of the Bible is Christocentric. That is, He is the nerve center, so to speak. God’s eternal design is found in Him, and Him alone! The entire universal creation was made by and for Him, and held in place by Him. The physical shows forth the Spiritual.

Jesus Christ is the summation of all things. It is not Christ and...IT IS CHRIST AND CHRIST ALONE. He is the first and the last, and all in between. There is no danger in overemphasizing Him. You can’t say too much about Him, you can’t love Him in excess. Paul breathed Christ every waking moment of the day and night. And if he dreamed, He was there too, I expect. If Christ be our “All,” then one cannot put too high an evaluation on Him.

If He is all, we need nothing more, for “Christ is all.” If we have nothing else, but Him alone, we have the greatest of all treasures within these coats of skin. The Tabernacle was covered with badgers' skins but underneath was pure gold. When Jacob heard Joseph was alive he said, “It is enough.” As a poem A.W. Tozer quotes about God’s questioning His children, “Am I not enough mine own, enough mine own for thee?”

“If Christ is all then we are nothing at all”

(Puritan saying).