A Sojourner's Quest

PA RT I I I : L I V I NG I N T H E WAY / 1 9 7

The Risen Messiah Himself Is Our Life

Col. 3.1-4 – If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Let us keep in mind that instead of giving us one object after another, God gives his Son to us. Because of this, we can always lift up our hearts and look to the Lord, saying, “Lord, You are my way; Lord, You are my truth; Lord, You are my life. It is you, Lord, who is related to me, not your things.” May we ask God to give us grace that we may see Christ in all spiritual things. Day by day we are convinced that aside from Christ there is no way, nor truth, nor life. How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life. We consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life, Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us. Let us ask him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only him. May we see the Lord in all things – way, truth, and life are all found in knowing him. May we really meet the Son of God and let him live in us. Amen.

~ Watchman Nee. Christ, the Sum of All Spiritual Things . New York: Christian Fellowship Publishers, 1973. p. 20.