Christ Fills All In All
We never stop rejoicing and participating in the marvelous, deep truths of our salvation by faith in Jesus Christ alone.
“And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all” (Ephesians 1:22–23).
It is so easy to assume Jesus in our lives and in our church, but when we do this, we diminish him. We demote him to a silent partner, the one who empowers our lives without ever speaking into them. Or his presence in our lives dissolves altogether. When we assume Jesus, we cannot see him as Ephesians 1 tells us, the one who has all things under his feet and the one who “fills all in all.”
So we can’t see the gospel as just for the unsaved, but as the enlivening reality in which every believer lives. We never stop rejoicing and participating in the marvelous, deep truths of our salvation by faith in Jesus Christ alone as our justifier, our redeemer, our rescuer, our renewer. We add nothing to the work of Christ to make salvation possible. We earn nothing in the eyes of God because Jesus has earned everything on our behalf.
And then there are all the ramifications, the results of the gospel: the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, the ongoing work of sanctification in our lives, a peace that transcends understanding, and a promise of eternal joy with Jesus. So how could we ever assume Jesus or depart from the good news of his gospel? We never move beyond it. We never tire of it. It is our defining reality, always.