My Unusual Journal
My Unusual Journal 23 - Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 5:18 PM
Here is a little something for you to mentally chew on; it’s a simple declarative statement that caught my eye recently: “Jesus is certifiably all I need.”
In the sentence above the word “all” has two slightly different definitions. In the first definition you can conceive of “all” as denoting just what it says – everything there is in the universe, the entirety of Creation, including our own world. Jesus (in His divinity) is in such a powerful sense the entirety of Creation and more since the divine Jesus was never created (although the human Jesus - that is, His body was created at a momentous time in human history). I can declare without fear of contradiction that Jesus is the sum total of all created objects and beings because Jesus was and IS God, and we all know God was never created and that He created the worlds by His Word Jesus (John 1.1 and 14). There was never a time when 1) God and 2) the Word and 3) Jesus (the three are one and the same – again see John 1.1 and 14) were not in existence.
In the second definition of the word “all” I am denoting that I need nothing outside the first definition of the word, that is, in the entirety of Creation, in addition to Jesus of course (and there is no “outside” of Creation), I cannot lack anything that is good for me. Nothing can be lacking to me as Jesus is “certifiably ALL.” Without Jesus nothing could exist; there could be nothing other than He.
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. (Col 1:16, 17)
I think that ties it up. Jesus is indeed “certifiably all.” He is the breath we inhale by the moment, the food we eat, the atmosphere in which we live, and move, and have our being. Take Jesus out of the equation of existence for all humanity saved and unsaved (if you could) and we would instantly perish naturally and spiritually.
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