“Christ who is our life” (Colossians 3:4)

In this life and the next, Christ is, forever and always, our life. The Apostle Paul said, “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21). He consistently taught the saints that Christ must be their everything. “Your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory” (Colossians 3:3-4). “You He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1). “Even when we were dead in trespasses, (God) made us alive together with Christ” (Ephesians 2:4). “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me” (Galatians 2:20).

He’s IN us, and we are IN Him. He’s our Blessed Hope, our faith working through love, our purpose and meaning, our constant righteousness, and peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit. Christ is the sustenance of our life, the spring of Living Water, the food we eat. “This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die” (John 6:50).

Christ is the solace of our life. All true joy comes from Him, and in times of trouble, His presence is our consolation. We live for His glory  and His love. If you live long enough with Him, you too, will say, “to live is Christ, and to die is gain”. Eventually, He means more than everything else put together, and you’d rather die than deny Him. The longer you stay in fellowship with Him, the more you’ll be like Him. “We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Corinthians 3:18).