Jesus Christ ~ Fount of Every Blessing

2008

Anything that God defines as a blessing must come to us through Jesus Christ. For it is His death that broke sin’s hold over us and the power of His resurrection that raised us to the throne of God, from where all blessings flow.

To come to know God means coming to know His Son. (John 14:9) To know the Son in a saving way, we must become partakers of Him through faith in the power of God to bring us into a vital union with His death and resurrection. We lose ourselves at the cross, for each encounter we have with Him there loosens our desperate grasp upon "self" and the vain hope to save it. We find ourselves at the cross, for in apprehending ourselves joined together with Him there, we realize that He is for us what we should be and this truth does not leave us wanting.

When the eye of faith rests upon Him as Surety and Satisfaction for sin, there is no more restless desire to search for other ways to gain assurance before a Holy God. He alone is our sufficiency, for what He accomplished for us grants continual entrance into the throne room of God, where we find our eternal supply.

A Christian’s heart is continually drawn out to Christ and His gospel because that is where he was born and the place where he longs to live. Being made alive from the dead and raised up to be seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Eph. 2:6), he reposes there and draws continually from that Source. To draw from any other source is to replace Christ with idols that can never meet the deepest needs of the human heart.

If God has given all that He has for us in the person of His Son, and by the greatness of His own power, made us to become partakers of the abundant blessings which He provides for us in Him, why do we live as though we are searching for other sources of satisfaction? Why do we live as paupers when He has lavished upon us, in Christ, such riches that it takes a heaven to contain?