{"id":885,"date":"2011-07-15T06:50:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T06:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=885"},"modified":"2011-07-15T06:50:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T06:50:21","slug":"christ-is-all-and-in-all-%e2%80%9cthe-lord-is-my-portion-says-my-soul-%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"CHRIST IS ALL, AND IN ALL \u201cThe Lord is my portion, says my soul.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHRIST IS ALL, AND IN ALL\u00a0 \u201cThe Lord is my portion, says my soul.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cChrist is all, and in all.\u201d\u2013Col. 3:11<\/a><\/p>\n

We close these devout meditations with a magnificent Doxology\u2013Christ all, and Christ in all! It is an epitome, the substance, the consummation and crown of the whole. Each theme has been a wider opening of the Divine jewel box, presenting another and a closer glimpse of the precious, priceless gem it contained. We now uplift and remove the lid, and, lo! it stands before us in all its grandeur, luster, and completeness\u2013CHRIST, ALL AND IN ALL. Language is exhausted, imagery supplies its last symbol, imagination drops her wing, for inspiration can bear it no higher\u2013Christ is all, and in all!<\/p>\n

\u201cBlessed Jesus! You are all in all, in creation and redemption, in pardon, grace, and glory. You are all in all in Your Church, and in the hearts of Your people\u2013in all their joys, all their happiness, all their exercises, all their privileges. You are all in all in Your word, ordinances, means of grace, the sum and substance of the whole Bible. Do we speak of promises? You are the first promise in the sacred word, and the whole of every promise that follows; for all in You are \u2018Yes and Amen\u2019. Do we speak of the law? You are the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes. Do we speak of sacrifices? By Your one sacrifice You have for ever perfected those who are sanctified. Do we speak of the prophecies? To You give all the prophets witness, that whoever believes in You shall receive the remission of sins. Yes! blessed, blessed Jesus, You are all in all. May You be to me, Lord, the all in all I need in time, and then, surely, You will be my all in all to all eternity!\u201d<\/p>\n

My soul! all that Jesus has is yours! Every perfection of His nature, every throb of His heart, every thought of His mind, every drop of His blood, every shred of His righteousness, every atom of His merit, is yours! How rich and vast the inventory! How precious and boundless the wealth! Draw largely upon His opulence\u2013He will honor every draft\u2013sink deeply into His fullness\u2013He will supply every need\u2013\u201dfor all is yours.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, my soul, Jesus is not only all to you, but He is in all that concerns you. He is in every event of your history, and He is in every circumstance of your life. He is in every affliction\u2013sanctifying it; He is in every sorrow\u2013sweetening it; He is in every cloud, brightening it\u2013He is in every burden\u2013sustaining it; He rides upon every storm and walks upon every billow, saying to the winds and the waves, \u201cPeace! be still.\u201d Oh, never meet an event or a circumstance in your daily life, be it sad or joyous, but let your faith exclaim, \u201cJesus is in this! He sent it, He comes with it, He will control it, and I shall prove the all-sufficiency of His grace, and He shall have every ascription of my praise!\u201d And if the Lord has seen fit to remove from you the one you loved\u2013the blessing you prized\u2013the supplies you needed\u2013the prop upon which you leaned, it is only that He Himself should be your all in all. Jesus can fill every blank, replace every loss, and be infinitely more to you than the fondest and most essential treasures He ever gave or took away!<\/p>\n

Christ will be all in all when eternity is nearing, and the eye is closing, and the heart is chilling, and the pulse is sinking, and the countenance is changing, and earth is disappearing, and heaven is opening, and friends are weeping\u2013oh then, then, JESUS will be ALL AND IN ALL! Down the shaded valley\u2013across the swelling flood\u2013up the celestial hills\u2013onward to the throne high and lifted up\u2013glory bathing it, saints and angels circling it, anthems floating around it\u2013Jesus will then appear as never before\u2013THE ALL AND THE IN ALL of His Church.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy flesh and my heart fails; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.\u201d- Octavius Winslow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CHRIST IS ALL, AND IN ALL\u00a0 \u201cThe Lord is my portion, says my soul.\u201d \u201cChrist is all, and in all.\u201d\u2013Col. 3:11 We close these devout meditations with a magnificent Doxology\u2013Christ all, and Christ in all! It is an epitome, the substance, the consummation and crown of the whole. Each theme has been a wider opening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}