“We see that our whole salvation and all its parts are comprehended in Christ. We should therefore take care not to derive the least portion of it from anywhere else. If we seek salvation, we are taught by the very name of Jesus that it is of him. If we seek any other gifts of the Spirit, they will be found in his anointing. If we seek strength, it lies in his dominion; if purity, in his conception; if gentleness, it appears in his birth. For by his birth he was made like us in all respects, that he might learn to feel our pain. If we seek redemption, it lies in his passion; if acquittal, in his condemnation; if remission of the curse, in his cross; if satisfaction, in his sacrifice; if purification, in his blood; if reconciliation, in his descent into hell; if mortification of the flesh, in his tomb; if newness of life, in his resurrection; if immortality, in the same; if inheritance of the Heavenly Kingdom, in his entrance into heaven; if protection, if security, if abundant supply of all blessings, in his Kingdom; if untroubled expectation of judgment, in the power given to him to judge. In short, since rich store of every kind of good abounds in him, let us drink our fill from this fountain, and from no other.”
John Calvin, Institutes, 2.16.19.
This is the hyperfocus-on-Christ I cherish. We will never exhaust him. We have only begun to enter in. There is more for us in Christ than we have yet apprehended. So much more. Faith in this great Christ creates an exploring openness, an adoring expectancy, an eager pursuit.
Through the night my soul longs for you. Deep from within me my spirit reach out to you. Isaiah 26 (The Message)
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
More Than We Have Apprehended
Ray Ortlund post: Rich store of every kind of good abounds in him
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