Jesus is All We Need

Like a baby.

Because we are in the One Who lives, we have all we need. We are complete in Him. As we accept Him as all we need, we share His fullness. When we experience a need we turn again to see Jesus. He then fills that need with Himself.

Always, we see Jesus as everything we need. Do we think we need money? No, we need Jesus. Do we think we need clothes? No, we need Jesus. Every seeming lack has and will be filled in Jesus. As we are consumed by His eternal Being of Love in faith, trust, and hope, we grow by discovering everything found in Him. Filled once again, we share Him in the form of Him.

Life becomes a continual cycle of experiencing a lack, seeing Jesus as our desired end, receiving Him, experiencing fullness, and sharing our riches.

Yes, we get the things we need, but first, and most importantly, we rediscover our union with Jesus the Christ through His Holy Spirit. Jesus is all we need.

Cycle of Life

Knowing Our Lack

A child should learn that life is as safe outside Mother as the nine months within her. Need food, warmth, anything? It was there in Mom. Once outside her, we experience both lack and fullness. Do we have a dirty diaper? It is changed. Do we hunger? We are fed. Do we need to burp, there is a helping hand. We live, move, and have our being in the hands of our caretakers. Jesus cares ever so much more than the best mother.

He, the Desired End

The purpose for life is for all to be wrapped up in Christ and handed back to Father.

"I have sworn by Myself, The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness and will not turn back, that to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance. (Isaiah 45:23 NASB)

"For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death. For HE HAS PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET. But when He says, "All things are put in subjection," it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him. When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all." (1 Corinthians 15:25-28 NASB)

Receiving Him is Receiving Life Eternal

Many make this act of receiving Him impossible. Do this first, then that. Get good enough, smart enough, rich enough, or suffer enough. This is like a never ending road headed east. We cannot get to the west that way.

Jesus said He was the door. Jesus meets us right where we are. There, Jesus meets us face to face, at ground level, baggage and all. He takes us and our baggage to His cross to die--for it is in His dying, we die, and in His living, we live.

We Receive His Spirit

What He gives is ours to hold. His Holy Spirit shows us all the things that are freely given us in Christ Jesus.

"Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God," (1 Corinthians 2:12 NASB)

Sharing What We Have

We have Jesus. No one is going to get Jesus. They are already His. We can ignore His abundant life and continue to live a flesh life of lack. But once we experience being filled with Christ, we cannot help but share Him in word and deed. See God's Pipeline.