Christ - Our Help

“Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.” Colossians 3:1-4

Every Christian knows Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, freed from the penalty of sin through Christ’s sacrificial death on Calvary. Many Christians know Him as Lord, submitting their will to Him on a daily basis, acknowledging His right to rule in their lives. However, few Christians know Christ as their life. Knowing Him as our life is the daily expression of His indwelling Spirit, abiding in Christ as our source of joy, peace, steadfastness, and love.

J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, wrote of the drastic difference that knowing Christ as our life makes: “How then shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness, on prayer, on action, on temptation, and on dangers? No. There must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to Him, a constant looking to Him for grace. Christians in whom these dispositions are once firmly fixed go on calmly as the infant born in the arms of its mother.”

Come to Christ as your life, and the fragrance and fruitfulness of your life in Christ will be unmistakable.

“How to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith but by resting on the Faithful One.” -John McCarthy