…and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s. (I Corinthians 3:23 ESV)
You are HIS, not He is yours
I am not sure whether my cats are mine, or if I belong to my cats.
I am not sure if some of my hobbies are mine, or if my hobbies control me.
I am not sure if my thoughts are mine, or if I somehow are owned by my thoughts.
But Scripture is pretty clear I am Christ’s.
Sometimes we talk as if we think He belongs to us. When we say things like, “my God,” “my Savior,” or “my Jesus,” I wonder if He wonders what we mean.
Perhaps we are only declaring that He is important to us. But I suspect that more often, we treat Jesus as if He were a resource we can call in when we need Him. Or we treat Him as our servant, figuring He is glad to have us on His team. Or we treat Him as if He is part of our family, our church, our community, or our nation.
He is none of those things.
We belong to Him, body and soul. He paid for us on that costly cross.
He is not our resource, but we get to be used by Him in His kingdom. He is not our servant, but we get to be His slaves. He is not on our team, but Christians are on His team. He forms the family around Himself, binds the church to Himself, offers true unity to any community, and all nations either do or will bow down to Him.
Christ alone.