Jesus, the Sum of all Things

In this series on "Good News about God", His nature and character, this week I'm going to simply give a quote from Watchman Nee's book, "Christ, the Sum of all Spiritual Things", in which he summarizes well what I'm attempting to do with these postings:

"There is nothing more important than to know the Lord...Knowing Him requires a spiritual seeing...everything depends upon Christ, and not upon us...When we first became a Christian, we were inclined to do everything ourselves, fearing lest nothing would ever be done or matters would fall to pieces if we did not do them...Later in having seen the Lord to be our life, we know that all is of Christ and not of us. Consequently, we learn to rest and to look to Him...

"What we need to comprehend before God is that in our experience there is neither thing nor affair but only Christ; not that He gives us light, but that He is our light; not that He leads the way, but He is the way; not that He gives us a life, but He is our life; not that He teaches a truth, but He is the truth. What Christ gives is His very own self...

"Christ does not come to sanctify us, He comes to be Himself our sanctification. Our sanctification is not a thing, an action, or a behavior. Our sanctification is a person, even Christ...Nor does God assert that the Lord is our redeemer, but He says that the Lord is our redemption...

"Thank God, Christ is our redemption as well as our redeemer. He is our sanctification as well as our sanctifier. He is our righteousness as well as our justifier. He is our wisdom as well as the One who makes us wise.

"Christianity is none other than Christ Himself."