Category: Devotion of the Day

All Things are Yours

For all things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours. And ye are Christ’s and Christ is God’s.
I Corinthians 3:21-23

Then take him for everything, salvation, strength, guidance, every need of the whole man. “Having nothing, and yet possessing all things” (II Cor. 6:10) – blessed paradox! I bring Him my nothingness and take His Allness. “Nothing in my hand I bring, simply to Thy cross I cling.” From nothing to everything!

And there is power to do. “I can do all things through Christ which strengthened me” (Phil. 4:13). For God is able to make all grace abound toward me, that I always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work (II Cor. 9:8).

I am not just to enjoy all this for myself. All things are mine except myself. I am not my own, I am bought with a price; therefore I ought to glorify God in my body and in my spirit, which are God’s (I Cor. 6:19, 20).

Move out of Nothing into Everything! It is all in Christ and it is all for you. And you are then not a depository but a dispenser. “Freely ye have received, freely give.”

With Him – All Things

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him freely give us all things”
Romans 8:32

How blessed to move from our nothingness to “everything in Jesus”! ‘By him all things consist.” The Father has given him all things (Jon. 3:35; 13:3; 16:15). All things were made by him (Jon. 1:3; I Cor. 8:6) Jesus has said, “All things are mine…Come” (Mt. 11:27, 28); “All things are mine…Believe” (Jon. 3:35, 36); “All things are mine…Go” (Mt. 28:18-20).

Your part is to bring Him all your need. His part is to supply all your need. (Phil. 4:19). If the first step is to realize the nothingness of yourself, the second is to turn to the Allness of Christ.

“All that I need is Jesus,” because all that I need is in Jesus. If God spared not His own Son buy freely delivered Him up for our redemption, He will not give me the greater and fail to give me the lesser, but with Him He has giving all else that I need, whether great or small.

And if everything is in Jesus, surely Jesus ought to be everything to us!