I am certain that most of my conscious life I neglect Christ. I seem to be in the way more than not.
Christ is everpresent, everknowing and ever powerful. To neglect Him, I neglect all I need in life, here on earth and everafter.
He is everything. He should be my all, He should be MY everything. The struggle is that while I am in this tent, I wrestle.
Jesus Christ deserves my life. He is LORD regardless of how I treat Him; however, through the Word transforming my life, He makes me His. He becomes MY Lord, personally. He puts His desires in my heart; He shares His will and makes it my will; He puts me where he wants me to be, when He wants me there. All this, on His terms, not mine.
In order for that to happen, I must turn away from (by His grace and His will) all wrongdoing, sin, evil intentions and actions and turn to Him. He will do that work in me when He so chooses. Then I must undoubtedly place my trust and faith in Him. I must willfully submit my life, will, emotions, actions, desires, thoughts and goals and dreams to whatever He chooses for me.
That is the true meaning of repentance. Selfless living.
“He must increase, but I must decrease.” – John 3:30
“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities–all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.” – Colossians 1:15 - 20
“But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.” – Philippians 3:7-11
May He have all of me because it is all about Him, Christ and Christ alone.
