Christ is everything! It took me over six decades to figure that out. I thank God for old age.....for some things.....pride....many goals....numerous distractions....and many temptations just fall away naturally.....with me anyway.....replaced by aches and pains.....and just looking in the mirror.
This isn't the best way of going about it. David Brainerd and Robert Murray M'Cheyne found out more about this than I'll ever know....and this in their twenties....and Charles Spurgeon in his teens....theirs more the hand of God....mine more the mercies and long-suffering of God.
NFL football....entertainments to any excessive degree....miserliness....unyielding ambitions....(other than spreading the gospel)....these things cannot exist once we see that Christ is everything.
"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other." Matthew 6:24 ESV
Prime evidence of this is in politics and the Christian. If Christ is everything.....then one is not going fall for delusion....one is not going to place their faith in men or princes....one is not going to seek to build anything before Christ's church is built.
Is there pride is using words like this? No....it is more that of a child's love for a parent....where it may gush with love more than if that child were older....and more embarrassed by such displays of emotion. It is more the praises shouted to God of a blind man who can now see. It is more the kissing of the king's ring by a prisoner granted mercy. It is unencumbered by what anyone may think....anyone other than the triune God!
"Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18:3 ESV":Abba
