Christ
is all and in all. Colossians 3:11
I wonder, dear friends, what you covet and pray for more than
anything else. For my own part, my coveting, my praying is more than for
anything else, a fresh and mighty captivation of the Lord Jesus, a
captivation of Christ. Oh, it is quite true, and we know it, that He is our
Life, He is our Savior, He is so much to us and we are right when we
say that we could not live without Him. And yet, is there not some margin
between that and what I am calling an absolute captivation with Christ? That He
is a passion in our lives, that He is a dominating power in
our lives. Language fails... that He has just so captured us, so utterly
captured us, that not only is He our Life in the sense that we couldn't get on
without Him, but that He is a passion for living. This man who wrote
these words, just look at him in this way: somehow he had seen Christ at
the beginning and through his long years he had seen more and more of Christ,
until in prison – with all those terrible sufferings and afflictions and
adversities and sorrows and disappointments that had come upon him through
those years, his catalog of adversities right at the end; Christ is more than
everything. Christ is in the ascendant, it is “Christ will be All, and in all.”
Now I say, language fails, I cannot put into words what I mean, but oh, for the
positiveness of this passion of Christ....
Such a seeing, a grasping, an apprehending and being mastered by
the Greatness of the One to Whom, by the grace of God, we have been united,
called into the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ. May it be more
than a mental grasping of Christ; that we know He is Great, we believe He is
great, we have experienced something of His Greatness. May our
hearts, more than even our minds, be mastered by this Man Jesus Christ and we
be His abject slaves in worship and adoration. He is so great!
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