Jesus, Our Only Option—Part 8

Jesus is God’s plan “A”. Because plan “A” is perfect and complete, there is no need for a plan “B”. God has no backup plan for your life. He doesn’t need one. God never says to us, “If Jesus, my Son, doesn’t work for you, let’s try something else.”

Any plan “B” is our plan, which comes from our own thinking and rationale. God tells us not to lean upon our own understanding, but to acknowledge Him, the Lord in every decision and the director of our steps.

Here are several quotes from men of God who understood what it meant to have Jesus as their only option:

"God designed us to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way…God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing." C.S. Lewis

"Troubles nearly always make us look to God; His blessings are apt to make us look elsewhere. Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ." –Oswald Chambers

"In Jesus all needful things are laid up for you." C.H. Spurgeon

What did having Christ as his life, look like for Paul? Here are 7 things:

"1. Christ was the author of his life.
For me to live at all is Christ.”
2. Christ was the sustainer of his life.
For me to continue to live is Christ. Paul was fully aware of his helplessness. He could say, “I have not kept Him; He has kept me.”
3. Christ was the law of his life.
My life is summed up in Christ. Paul was not living by a list or set of rules or principles, but by the law of love within him. He didn’t live by maxims but the ever-present Christ stretching to the farthest territory of his being, and by His presence there ordering all of life within the bound of His own will and heart.
4. Christ was the product of his life.
My life is to reproduce Christ. What he believed was lived out through choices, his attitudes, and his actions. The life and character of Christ was being formed in him through the shaping of character.
5. Christ was the aim & influence of his life.
My life is to lead men to Christ.
6. Christ was the impulse of his life.
My life is to move under the compassion of Christ.
7. Christ was the finisher & crown of his life.
My life is to be what He is and receive from Him all that He gives."
-G. Campbell Morgan