Applying Christ's Victory

Christ was born, died and buried. Then He was resurrected. From His birth and into His resurrection, He was victorious over the devil and death. Because God is the conqueror of everything, that means that we must stand before His presence one day. One day, either at the conclusion of this world or through death, we will stand in the throne room of God and be asked, "Why should I let you into My heaven?" Some will be turned away at the entrance to heaven, having let their chance for eternity slip away.

We are distracted, and we let ourselves be distracted by things that do not matter. The jobs or titles we held here on earth will matter very little in heaven. The grades we got on a math test will not matter, nor will how much money we do or do not make. We too often let ourselves be swept away by our own culture of what is and isn't important. Augustus Toplady goes on to challenge us, "If it is the merits of Christ alone that we can stand with safety before God, let us renounce self-dependence in every view, and rely for justification and everlasting life on Him, making mention of Him and His righteousness only, in whom all the seed of Israel are justified, and shall glory."

We will stand in heaven only based on Jesus, and what we did with what we knew about Him. God is aware of what is important, and so He tells us where we should be keeping our focus. This is how we apply the resurrection and victory of Christ: by listening to what He says. And what did Christ say? "Know Me, love Me, and then love others."

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