Is family everything? Or is Jesus everything?

1 Corinthians 7 tells us that the single life is a unique gift from God, and many Christians should thoughtfully embrace singleness as the best way for them to glorify God in this short life we’ve been given.

In Christ, we all get to be a part of the real thing that human marriage is only a picture of.

As we choose to reject earthly treasure and commit ourselves to generosity, we’re not actually sacrificing anything. All we’re doing is transferring our treasure to a safer location.

Being in Christ means that we’ve been given a whole new definition of “work.” Work is no longer a thing we have to do to pay the bills. Instead, we have this new category, “good works” which are to fill up our whole life.

In Christ, us Gentiles have been given full citizenship in the kingdom of God. We’ve been fully adopted into the family. We are full members of the people of God.

If anyone is in Christ, He is already a part of that New Creation. The old has already passed away. What God is one day going to do for all Creation, He has already done for us.

Jesus, being fully God and fully man, is the only person who can be the main character of the Bible. He does what men should have done but failed to do, and He does what only God can do. From first to last, He holds the centre stage.

When the Word became flesh, Jesus replaced the temple. He became the way in which God dwelt with His people. Not in a building, but in a person.

Each of us will have opportunities this week to submit to the loving rule of the Son of David. And as we do that, we look forward to the day when His enemies are put under His feet, and He reigns from sea to sea with no opposition.