“CHRIST IS ALL, AND IN ALL!”

Colossians 3:1-11                                 (ESV)

“1 If then you have been raised with CHRIST, seek the things that are above, where CHRIST is, seated at the right hand of GOD.

2 SET YOUR MINDS on things that are above, NOT on things that are on earth.

3 For you have died, and YOUR LIFE IS HIDDEN WITH CHRIST IN GOD.

4 When CHRIST WHO is your LIFE appears, then you also will appear with HIM in glory.

5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

6 On account of these the wrath of GOD is coming.

7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.

8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the OLD SELF with its practices

10 and have put on the NEW SELF, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its CREATOR.

11 HERE THERE IS NOT Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but “CHRIST IS ALL, AND IN ALL”.”

Living in the realization that in my mortality the answers to life’s problems cannot be attained, leaves me dependent on THE BIBLE for WISDOM to get through every day!  Any human must realize that they are NOT GOD, and even their “good ideas” originate from ABOVE!  Regardless of denomination, ethnicity, social class, or any other degree of physicality, “CHRIST IS ALL, AND IN ALL”.  

I am a BELIEVER IN JESUS CHRIST!  Anything further than that is superfluous.  When we begin trying to ADD to what CHRIST has performed, we initiate a process of trying to boast of our goodness.  Ephesians 2:8-9 (ESV) says “For by grace you have been saved through faith. AND THIS IS NOT YOUR OWN DOING; IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD, NOT A RESULT OF WORKS, SO THAT NO ONE MAY BOAST.”    JESUS knew that people like me would “brag”, so HE said “IT IS FINISHED” on the cross “SO THAT NO ONE MAY BOAST.”   

Former President Ronald Reagan once said “Within the covers of the BIBLE are the ANSWERS for ALL THE PROBLEMS men face."  We can pass laws (legislation), incentivize, and encourage people to be better humans, but until and unless we admit and understand that “CHRIST IS ALL, AND IN ALL” we will continue to digress into chaos.  Mankind is unable to improve upon perfection.  JESUS is our answer, we just won’t acknowledge HIM!  “CHRIST IS ALL, AND IN ALL”!!!