Saturday, September 5, 2026

Scripture

“When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.” Colossians 3:4

Reflections

If you were to put a word or phrase on your tombstone, what would it be?

In a cemetery in Minnesota, there lies a tombstone with the phrase, “Christ our life.”  It is a phrase that comes from Col. 3:4. “When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.”

Other things could be put on a tombstone, things like “He liked to fish” or “A loving grandmother”.  But those kinds of things point back to what the person’s life was like on this earth.  As a people of faith, our perspective is more than the past.  It is more than the here and now.  We look ahead to what God has in store for us in the future.

Christ Jesus is our life.  He is One and the same as the Creator, the One who brought our lives into being.  He is the One who sustains us in this earthly life.  He is the One who will once again breathe new life, even after death.  We know it will happen because in Christ Jesus it already did happen.

As we read from Paul in 1 Cor. 15:51b-52a, “We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.”  Christ Jesus is our life!

Prayer

Lord God, thank you for being my source of life.  May my life be a testimony to the life I have come to know in You.  In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Full Reading: Colossians 3:1-4