LIVING WATERS
For the proclamation of the Gospel and the edification of the Body of Christ
Christ, Our Treasure
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:21).
In Christ Jesus we work no longer for life, but from life. Our high endeavor is not to shape our actual life in the flesh into conformity to an ideal life that is set before us in Him. It is rather to reduce our true life now hid in Christ to an actual life in our self.
And so the summons of the Gospel is not that we behold what is impossible for us in Christ, and reach forth to it; but rather that we behold what is accomplished for us in Christ, and appropriate it and live in it.
Risen with Christ, the first fruits of our spirits already carried up with Him into glory, our life hid with Him in God, how shall not our heart be where our treasure is! How shall not our love be ever kindling and burning upwards, purging itself of all earthly dress, till it is wholly intent on Him?
Why hang the damps and corruptions of the grave about us still, earthliness and sinful affections, and all these clinging: accompaniments of moral death, from which our Lord has ransomed us! It is ours even now to walk with Him in white, and to he ever breathing with Him the freshness of the morning of the resurrection and of endless life. (A.J. Gordon).