When Christ, who is our life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. (Colossians 3:4 )
Christ, who is our life…Chapters and books could be written just about this phrase alone! But to fully understand it we also have to go back to the Garden of Eden when God breathed His very own breath (“Ruach”) into Adam and Eve and gave them sentience and consciousness. But we also know that after the fall, the life within humanity was limited. Why is that? Because the only thing that animates us, empowers and sources us is the breath of God. So when our relationship with Him is fractured, strained and broken then the life within us is strained and stained.
But then Jesus comes and breathes on the disciples and tells them to receive the Spirit of God. He is renewing the life within them. He is re-sourcing, re-viving and re-”lifing” them! The “pneuma” of God in the New Testament is the same as the breath of God in the Old Testament and it is only by His breath that we really live.
Thankfully He has not removed all of His breath/spirit from the earth or else all life would cease to be (Job 34:14). Like the Bible says about the fact that He rains on the righteous and the wicked, even so He has lent His breath to both the righteous and the wicked, but He desires to bring new breath, new life, new wind into the hearts of humanity. He wants us in fact to be people of the wind (see John 3:8) Jesus told us that He is “the way, the truth and the life” and also that He is “the resurrection and the life.”
So may we always remember: Christ Himself is our life, when we believe Him and receive Him.
But when will He be revealed? So many times and in so many ways! Of course this is looking towards His coming again, when all creation will know that He is King of kings and Lord of lords, but it also is true that when He is revealed, manifest and made known (in church services, through love and by miracles) then so long as we are hidden in Him and He in us, we will be seen as belonging to Him. And then when the day comes, that He appears in the Eastern Sky, we also will be with Him in glory forever!
So the question is: Is Christ Jesus your life? Have you allowed Him to re-animate and re-vive you?
If He is your life, are you relying on Him for strength, wisdom and direction?
Also, when He is revealed to the world one day, will they then see you revealed with Him? Or will you be revealed as only being part of this world and following self, the world or the devil?
If Christ truly is your life, are you asking Him and seeking His Word so that He alone will be the source for your thoughts, words, actions and reactions?
Pastor Michael Johnson 