Do you contemplate your dependance on Christ?

Do you contemplate daily your dependence on Christ?

Do the words of Paul resonate in your heart?

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God (2 Cor. 3:5)

Are John the Baptist’s words sensible to you?

“He must increase, but I must decrease.” (Jn. 3:30)

Do you recognize that He is your everything?  Do you embrace the truth that without Him you can do nothing?

“I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing” (Jn. 15:5)

Jonathan Edwards affirmed our dependence on Christ, saying,

How little do men think that they every moment depend on God. They are preserved, and kept alive, and kept out of hell. But how little do they think that ’tis God that keeps them.  How little do they think how many evils they are liable to every day, unless God keeps them.

And when they are seeking their own good and happiness, how little sensible are they of their absolute dependence on God.  How is it the manner of men in such cases to be trying in their own strength.

And when they are under conviction of their guilt, and the misery of a natural condition, how prone are men to be thinking that they can make themselves better, and can recommend themselves to God, or make some atonement for sin, when we can’t do it, any more than we can create a world. How difficult a thing is it to convince men of the insufficiency of their own reason and abilities, to help them out of a natural state. These poor, feeble creatures look very big upon themselves. They little think how it is God that every day keeps ’em from falling into the most heinous wickedness imaginable, by the restraints that he lays on their corruptions; and how it is God that every moment keeps them from being destroyed by the devil, who, if God should give permission, would immediately fall upon them as a roaring lion. This arises from the grand conceit we naturally have of ourselves, and our ignorance of our own weakness. [“Our Weakness, Christ’s Strength”]