This weekend’s music set closes with Jordan Kaufman’s “All I Have is Christ.” To see Jesus Christ as the all-powerful, all-wise, all-righteous, all-merciful, all-satisfying Treasure of the universe is our chief obligation. But simply saying (or singing) that Christ is valuable does not communicate the worth of Christ in a meaningful way. What I mean by this is not that our saying, “Christ is our treasure,” has no propositional content, but rather that the utterance of these words in speech or on song does not demonstrate in any meaningful way what really is going on in our hearts. We show the true worth of Christ when we really do “count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord” (Phil. 3:8). We show the true worth of Christ when we are so satisfied in him that we let possessions, ambitions and family go and lay down our lives for the sake of the kingdom in mercy, missions, and, if necessary, martyrdom. This is the kind of life that demonstrates in a meaningful way that “All I have is Christ.”
