Christ Is All That Matters

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

August 26, 2025

Christ Is All That Matters

Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him. In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.

Colossians 3:10-11 

Like yesterday’s passage from John’s Gospel, in today’s scripture, Paul’s affirmation of our right standing with God is just as simple and straightforward as is Jesus’ words. Again, we ask, “Can it be this simple?” and again the Holy Spirit speaks into our heart, “YES!”

And again, we find that religious leaders and scholars have spent the last two thousand years making Paul’s teaching much more complicated. Listening to these other voices, countless Christians seem to fall in and out of grace, in and out of their salvation, their right standing with their Creator. I wrote in my meditation, Flawless, a few days ago, that the Apostle Paul affirmed our right standing with God in Colossians 1:22,

“(God) has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.”

In today’s scripture, Paul is calling us to accept our position in Christ and yield ourselves to work cooperatively with God as He forms Christ within us, as He leads us to live out life in our new nature.

My Takeaway: Christ is all that matters! Can it be this simple? Yes, because Christ lives in you! 

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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