Christ Is Not Part of Your Life — Christ Is Your Life
Rev. Aniekan "Mbomboyo" Okokon ·
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life." — John 14:6
Listen to how believers talk and you will hear the architecture of their faith. "I try to put God first." "I make room for Christ." "Faith is an important part of my life." All sincere, and all built on the same assumption: that life is mine, and Christ is a portion of it — the largest portion, perhaps, but a portion.
Jesus never spoke that way about Himself, and Paul never spoke that way about Him. "I am the life." "Christ who is your life." Not a slice of the loaf. The loaf.
The problem with portions
If Christ is a part of your life, then the other parts have their own source. Work runs on ambition, marriage on affection, money on anxiety, and Christ is consulted when those run dry. That is not union; it is a timetable. It leaves the believer exhausted, because most of his life is still self-sourced, and it leaves Christ honoured but unused.
What it means that He is the life
- There is no area of your existence that is outside His life — no room He waits at the door of.
- The strength for Monday, the patience for your children and the courage for the hard conversation are not resources you find; they are His life expressed through you.
- When you sin, you have not stepped outside your life into some other one; you have acted against the life you have. That is why it feels like death.
- Growth is not adding more of Christ to your schedule. It is letting the life you already have reach further into your days.
A small correction with large consequences
Try, for a week, refusing the language of portions. Not "I need to give God more time," but "Christ is my life — what does His life look like in this hour?" You will find prayer, work, rest and relationships stop competing for a slot and begin to belong to one Person. That is not a technique. It is simply agreeing with what is already true.