Christ Our Life
A theological exploration of Christ's centrality to Christian faith, examining Jesus as the embodiment of God's life and purposes.
There on the third day of Genesis i we see the first fruits of creation (as Christ, raised on the third day, would be the first fruit of bit t ie new creation, of resurrection from the dead). These first fruits t actu cach reproduce 'according to their kinds' because they have seed hent ie next generation - within them. Thus what happens to the fruit Wh happens to the seed. So it is, says Paul, with Adam and Christ. They ecter dre the firstfruits of two very different crops: one of death, the other of life. All others are but seed in one of those fruits.
You will find sin, self, Satan, and the world to be hard masters; but if you wear the livery of Christ, you will find him so meek and lowly of heart that you will find rest unto your souls. He is the most magnanimous of captains. There never was his like among the choicest of princes. He is always to be found in the thickest part of the battle. When the wind blows cold he always takes the bleak side of the hill. The heaviest end of the cross lies ever on his shoulders. If he bids us carry a burden, he carries it also. If there is anything that is gracious, generous, kind, and tender, yea lavish and superabundant in love, you always find it in him. These forty years and more have I served him, blessed be his name! and I have had nothing but love from him. I would be glad to continue yet another forty years in the same dear service here below if so it pleased him. His service is life, peace, joy.