Are You Searching for Something More?

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Galatians 2:20

As Christians, we believe Jesus died for our sins, but sometimes we are not sure He is able to deliver us from this present evil age. We are glad to be forgiven and grateful to know we are bound for heaven, but we feel that we need something more.

And so, the search is on to find what that something is. This struggle that we face individually is often reflected in the church. Christian people are looking for something, and so the focus of the church moves away from Christ. The discussion centers around the question: “How do we meet people’s deepest needs?”

But the church cannot meet the deepest needs of your life. If you are looking to the church to be your saviour, then you will be disappointed. The church that says, “Look to us to meet the needs of your life” has lost its way. It has fallen into the error of the Galatians.

The message of Galatians is about the sufficiency and therefore the centrality of Jesus Christ, not only in the forgiveness of sins and for your eternal destiny, but also for all the challenges of your life now. It is about the Christ who died for us and the Christ who lives in us.

If you are going to stake your life on the gospel, you need to have a very high degree of confidence that it is true. This takes us to the main theme of the first chapter of Galatians, that the gospel comes directly from Jesus Christ Himself.

Are you looking for something more? Have you been moving away from the gospel?