Christ: How Important Is He?

“But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”

Consider now the crux of Christianity, and why it is we boast in Christ alone: Were a man to somehow achieve the impossible, and by some grit and self-determination, attain sinless perfection in this life, but not be united to Christ by faith, he would be seen, by God, as the most wicked among devils. Our God is a consuming fire of Holiness. “Behold, God puts no trust in his [angels], and the heavens are not pure in his sight; how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water” (John 15:15-16)! Indeed, even his holy ones; those whom he makes a flame of fire, and those whom men are motivated by their majestic presence…