-Christ. Nuff said really. He is our All. He is our Life. He is our Everything. Our faith - it is all about Christ. HE is the fairest of ten thousand. HE is the Alpha and Omega. HE is the King of kings and the Lord of lords, All That And So Much More. To know Him, to become like Him, to live and act like Him - this is our calling, our privilege, our destiny - to be increasingly conformed to His image and thus increasingly give the world a picture of Christ. And we must dedicate ourselves to making Him our All and living into this All not only in our hearts and lives but in our relationships, particularly within the body of Christ.
-Those who follow Christ (or at least profess as much) are far too willing to be ungracious and disconnected. What would it look like in an assembly where Christ was the All and in all? The things that keep us apart and divide us from people, that hinder our relationships with others who have truly trusted Christ - the selfish and impure desires, the lack of grace and forgiveness, the negative words, the deceit and hiding and lack of transparency, the biases we have towards others based on their quirks or faults or their ethnicity or (lack of) education or religious background or their social/economic status - none of it should get in the way. All that matters is Christ, and if someone is willing to make it all about Christ, then nothing else about them should matter to me, not the color of their skin, not the size of their checkbook, not their appearance or their accent or their age or their intelligence or their personality or their political persuasion or the team they root for. We need each other. Black and white and other, rich and poor, young and old, calvin and arminius, 1st baptist and 2nd baptism - the world desperately needs us to need each other, to truly accept and embrace and love each other. Christ is All That (matters). What a glorious thing that would be...
-And in fact, it would look like what Paul lays out in the very next verse...
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