Tuesday August 20, 2024
Colossians 3:11
Christ is all and in all.
Christ is the channel of all, the pledge of all, the sum of all. The channel of all. All love and mercy flow from God through Christ the mediator. We get nothing apart from him: “no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Other conduits are dry, but this channel is always full: ‘he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.’ Christ is the pledge of all. When God gave us Christ, he did as much as say, “I have given you all things.” “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” He is a covenant to us, the title-deeds of the promised rest. And, indeed, Christ is not only the channel of all and the pledge of all, but the apostle says he ‘is all’; so I take it he is the sum of all. If you are going to travel on the Continent, you need not carry a bed with you, nor a house, nor a table, nor medicine, nor food; if you only have money in your purse, you have these condensed. Money is the representation of everything it can buy; it is a kind of universal talisman, producing what its owner wishes for. I have never yet met with a person in any country who did not understand its meaning: “money answers everything” says the wise man (Ecclesiastes 10:19), and this is true in a limited sense; but he that has Christ has indeed all things: he has the essence, the substance of all good. I have only to plead the name of Jesus before the Father’s throne, and nothing desirable shall be denied me. If Christ is yours, “all things are yours.” God, who gave you Christ, has in that one gift summed up the total of all you will want for time and for eternity, to obliterate the sin of the past, to fulfil the needs of the present, and to perfect you for all the work and bliss of the future.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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