The Place Called “Christ”

...even so in Christ shall all be made alive., – 1Co 15:22

“Christ” is a person and “Christ” is a place.

Eph 1:3 says God has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. and Eph 2:6 says He has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus

“Christ” is that place where no devil can reach you and where no condemnation can touch you. For if any man be IN CHRIST, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2Co 5:17; Rom 8:1).

This, much more than Heaven, should be our passion. An excessive wave of heaven-fixation has swept through the Church and is dominating our message and theology. When fully analysed, this passion for heaven is no more than self-preservative behaviour, a sort of (HELL) FIRE INSURANCE:

 “I have to dodge Hell by all means. They say I should come for 3 services, I will. They say I should be fervent in church work, I will. They say we should come for evangelism, I’ll be #1 there... Ah! This Heaven, I must make it O.”

Meanwhile, the Omniscient, the One whose eyes are upon the ways of man, and who sees all his steps (Job 34:21), the One who shed His precious Blood for you so that you can be united with Him in communion, is observing the overarching motivation behind your zeal.

While Heaven is a promise to the Believer, that shouldn’t be our passion. Christ should be our passion, our Goal, and our fixation. That’s why the Epistles – the part of scripture most directly relevant to the New Testament Saint –talk more about Christ than about Heaven.

Some Christians’ passion is about heavenly mansions, crowns and rewards. Redeemed from destruction, they’ve now become ‘holy’ avaricious hoarders.

Beloved, there’s more to Christ than Heaven, and that should be our focus. The whole essence of Christian maturity, Paul says, is for us to come to the knowledge of the Son of God, and unto the fullness of CHRIST” (Eph 4:13).

Therefore, let Christ be your passion, and let Christ be your Goal. For even the “heavenly places” that people are striving for, is ‘in Christ” (Eph 1:3; 2:6).

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN