The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

Disconnected quotes? Not to my mind. Everything is empty without Christ. If I try to ‘find myself’ in anything other than a relationship with Christ I will find myself more lost than ever. My death was nothing less than a complete separation from the world. If I seek his face, I will lose myself, only to find my true self on the other side. If my love for the world is still alive, it is as it were, a zombie, because it was put to death on the cross 2000 years ago.

Becoming a Christian is nothing less than the ultimate act of trust. It is a death sentence on your very soul. If Christ died and did not rise, then your soul was put to death for nothing, and you are still dead. If I do not allow Christ into some aspect of my life, I will not find that part of my life unsatisfactory, but completely dead. The only way for us to live is in the Spirit. We are either in the Spirit or we are dead.

What we once found to satisfy us, we will not find satisfying again, whereas we could once work by ourselves, we can no longer. It is Christ himself who lives in us, or we are dead, and can do nothing. We can’t turn back, because there’s nothing to turn back to. It’s gone. Dead and buried. The branch which does not abide in the vine is dead, not sick.

God Bless.

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