When Christ (who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him. Colossians 3:4 (NETFull)
It began when I was a boy and knew I had sinned. I needed the forgiveness offered through Jesus. I was baptized at age eleven and every life challenge since nudged me further into relationship with Christ. Somewhere along the way, he became my everything.
Jesus is the Divine who planted the seed of eternity in my heart. I didn’t do that, he did. He is also the gardener who waters and weeds around his seed so it might grow. Looking at the fruit of good deeds on my branches, I know he is the sap running in my veins that creates the miracle.
Jesus is the medicine for my raging dysfunction. He is the doctor who slips my dislocated life into place and the mortar that holds me together. He is the music that transforms my spastic twitching into dance. When opinions differ and minor doctrines divide, Jesus quells the fear we must get everything right. If health fails or friends abandon, he is the sunshine that fills the icy crevasse. He is my freedom, my peace, and my hope.
Imagine you’re in the vacuum of outer space. In panic, you try to draw breath but there’s nothing, only reflexive gulping of emptiness. That’s what it’s like to live without Jesus. Take him out of the equation and you no longer have life, only a shell like a clam with the creature missing or a cocoon with the butterfly gone. No life, just empty, dark existence with fading memories of the concept of light.
Jesus is more than everything. He is more existent than me. I’m only here because of his love. He is the cause, I am the effect. Though my faith in him began as a tiny seed, it has grown into an unmovable tree. By the power of his Spirit, my branches stretch toward him and they won’t be deterred. I will be united with my everything.
Prayer: Oh, Jesus, you are everything I want from life.