The Wednesday Word ~ 25 March, 2026 A.D.

Christ Is All!

by DG Miles McKee

 

Have you ever felt dissatisfied with your faith?  Have you ever thought that if only you had a better quality of faith, then you could be sure of your salvation? This is dangerous thinking for we are never called to have faith in faith.  Since when does the Bible say, "Being satisfied with our faith, we have peace with God”? (see Romans 5:1). Satisfaction with Jesus, His person and work, is what Heaven is looking for. We are neither called to be satisfied nor even occupied with our faith.

 

We are called to be focused on Christ and His objective, outside of us, finished work! As believers we should be careful to avoid backsliding into subjectivism but backslide we will if we continually focus on our experiences and level of faith.

 

Gospel faith takes a hold of Christ and His accomplishments on our behalf and causes us to set our affection on things above where Christ is. (Colossians 3:2). Gospel faith takes us out of ourselves and away from dwelling on our experiences. The very essence of faith is to be satisfied with Christ and His substitutionary work accomplished on our behalf. Christ is all (Colossians 3:11); faith sees and rests on this!  If our desire, however, is to be satisfied with our faith, we are evidently dissatisfied with Christ.  If this is the case, then we are not thinking like Gospel believers. Our thinking has somehow been re-arranged.

 

The Gospel believer, on the other hand, is learning to be dissatisfied with self, and to be satisfied with Christ.  Remember John the Baptist's words, "He must increase, but I must decrease” (John 3:30). For the Gospel believer, growth can be explained with these three little words, “He must increase.” He, the Christ who conquered, death, sin and the grave must increase in our understanding, appreciation and love. For Him to increase does not mean an increased inward self- occupation with our warm fuzzy subjective experiences, but rather it means enjoying being occupied with the risen and exalted Christ. When He, the risen Christ of the Cross, is increasing, everything else that vies for our attention is decreasing.

 

Near the pulpit, in an old church in the Highlands of Scotland, there is a sign that says, “No man can give at once the impression that he himself is clever and that Christ is mighty to save.” This is just another way of saying that he must increase but we must decrease.” With the Lord’s help may we learn to be thrilled with faith's glorious object, the Lord Jesus. May we learn to focus on Him, not on faith and certainly not on our experience of Him. Faith, no matter how perfect, is nothing in and of itself. Faith, however, points us to Jesus. It commands us to look away from ourselves and even itself and look to Christ, the risen, exalted, crucified Lord. Faith agrees that "Christ is all" (Colossians 3:11). Faith constantly urges us to look to the One who says, "Look unto Me” (Isaiah 45:22).

 

And that’s the Gospel Truth!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Putrid Cup of Tolerance: When Evil Poses as Progress

"Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: He preserveth the souls of His saints; He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked." -Psalm 97:10 [KJV] "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." Thomas Mann's chilling words pierce through the fog of modern moral relativism like a shard of ice. It's a warning that echoes through the blood-soaked pages of history, a truth we ignore at our peril. The Seduction of False Neutrality We live in an age where tolerance is held up as the supreme virtue, the golden idol before which we must all bow. We're told to accept everything, question nothing, and embrace a faux-unity that sacrifices truth on the altar of political correctness. But what happens when this tolerance becomes a blindfold, obscuring the stark reality of evil lurking in our midst? Like a ravenous wolf, evil doesn't care for our carefully crafted social constructs. It doesn't respect boundaries, it doesn't play fair, and it ce...
Read more

According to God's Good Pleasure...

"According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will." -Ephesians 1:4, 5 [KJV] It is a very solemn but a very true assertion, that no man can quicken his own soul; and it is an equally solemn, we might almost say, a tremendous truth, that the gospel only comes in power to those whom God has chosen unto eternal life.  Indeed the one flows from the other; for if no man can quicken his own soul, it necessarily follows it must be of sovereign grace that it is quickened at all. Once you allow the fall, and acknowledge that a man is by nature so thoroughly dead in trespasses and sins that he cannot raise himself up out of this state to newness of life, then the doctrine of election necessarily follows.   A living soul may reason thus: "Am I quickened? Yes. Di...
Read more

Christ Alone Be Magnified!

"He MUST Increase, but I MUST Decrease" -J OHN 3:30 [KJV] This was spoken of the Redeemer by His forerunner John. And it is not to be considered as the language of complaint or sullen agreement as if he would say, "I dislike it; but it is unavoidable. It is my grief; and I must bear it." No. It was as agreeable to his feelings as it was firm in his belief. And it showed a fine and a noble soul in John. The spirit that is in us lusteth to envy. We love to be distinguished above others. We wish to rise, even by the fall of others. It is trying, even to a good man, to withdraw, and see a successor filling his place better than himself, and, as the honors he has worn are transferred to another, to say, "He must increase, but I must decrease." It is not an easy thing to go down well, or for a setting star to exult in a rising sun. But it was thus to John. He knew his rank and approved his place. He was the servant, not the Master: the friend, ...
Read more