Is "Christ Everything I Need"?

Too often, we don't really believe that at all.

by Rod D. Martin
October 19, 2014

I visited a friend's church this Sunday morning. One of the songs we sang posited that "Christ is everything I need," and went on to say that, having met Jesus, nothing else in this life could ever satisfy me.

I thought about that for a second. And I realized that, too often, I don’t really believe that.

The truth is, lots of things short of Christ, the Creator and Redeemer of the world, the lover of my soul, satisfy me all too well. Like a small child who has no greater culinary desire than ketchup, I satisfy myself with mud pies every day. My attention span is anything but eternal.

Oh, there's a butterfly!

But we all -- all Christians at least -- struggle with that. And that's not what hit me.

What I thought about as I sang that song were the things for which I'd be tempted to trade my Lord entirely.

Don't understand what I mean? Ask Jesus Himself. In the Wilderness, Satan thrice tempted our Messiah, once with a short-term impulse, food; once with an all-to…