WHAT IS LIFE TO YOU?
“For me to live is Christ...”~ Phil. 1:21
What is life to you? I find it means different things to different people: to some it is family, for others it is their work; there are a score of other answers we could give. Few in comparison would say it is Christ. But what happens when these people or things, for one reason or the other, are taken from us; when one is no longer able to be involved with them? For many their life falls apart; there is no reason to go on, they would say. It is pointless, meaningless, they believe.
Life is more than simply existing. A host of mankind believe it’s a thing to be endured; at the other end of the spectrum are those who think it is made up only of eating and drinking. Such sad souls are they whose lives consist of only those things found under the sun, they’re miserable, to say the least. Ask the wise man in Ecclesiastes; who had it all. He “hated life,” yet Peter tells us there are saints who, “Love life.” Only those who can sincerely say, “Christ is my life,” can in truth love life!
The sublimest and greatest statement a believer can ever make, I think, is “for me to live is Christ.” That is, He dominates and controls every facet of my being. There is no part of my life He does not have rule and sway over. This is true in my death also, says Paul. When He met Jesus for the first time he fell hopelessly and helplessly in love with Him; you might say, “It was love at first sight!” He saw Him in the flesh, we see Him by faith, “ Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.”
“I have one passion, it is HE, and HE alone.”~ Count Zinzendorf.
by an Aged Saint