Millions around the world this week are giving special study to the Biblical idea of “United to Christ.”
This fascinating study raises several questions in our minds.
Whose idea is it to be “united to Christ”? Is it something that we fallen humans have thought of?
Can we fallen humans take credit for the idea of being “united to Christ”? Do we fallen humans sense or realize our need of being “united to Christ”? Or is it an idea that only the Lord Jesus Himself could have thought of?
Romans answers the questions for us: “There is none righteous, no not one: there is none ... that seeketh after God. ... There is none that doeth good, no, not one” (3:10-12).
We fallen humans should have been the ones to think of seeking a Savor; but no, it was His idea to go seeking for us.
When we understand this correctly, we will see that there is soul-saving power in this truth: it magnifies the love of Christ so that when we grasp it, “the love (agape) of Christ constraineth us” to live “henceforth ... but unto Him who died for us and rose again” (2 Cor. 5:14, 15).
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