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“Belonging To Christ!”
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Leave a comment Study By Sherwin Scott
“And you are included among those Gentiles who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ.”
Romans 1:6 (NLT)
What a blessing, privilege and honour it is, for those who are called, to belong to Jesus Christ, the Father’s beloved Son. The amazing truth about this special calling is that it cannot be changed: ‘For God’s gifts and his call can never be withdrawn.’ (Romans 11:29). As human beings we all have a need to belong, and to have an identity. We are born into a family, and that family is part of a tribe, clan, or nation. We also belong to a specific racial group, and we belong to the human race.
Belonging to someone or something is vitally important to human beings. The good news for believers is that we belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God (1 Corinthians 3:23). As believers our identity is in Jesus Christ and no other; we in Christ and Christ in us is our hope of glory and eternal life: ‘For God wanted them to know that the riches and glory of Christ are for you Gentiles, too. And this is the secret: Christ lives in you. This gives you assurance of sharing his glory.’ (Colossians 1:27).
We are also called to be saints and into the fellowship of Jesus, (1 Corinthians 1:2 and 9), where we participate in a relationship with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, as brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ: the beloved children of the living God who loves us. This amazing life that we have as believers, however, does not belong to us, it belongs to God: ‘Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.’ (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
One of my favourite hymns is Blessed Assurance. It reminds me of my mother who used to sing it while she was doing household chores. The first verse states:
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine; Oh what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God, born of His Spirit, washed in his blood.
Yes, the Father paid a very high price for us. The life of His beloved Son.
Prayer
Abba Father, thank you for calling me to belong to Jesus. Please enable me to treat this special calling as the precious gift that it is. In Jesus’s name, Amen.
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Matthews United Methodist Church