Am I suggesting that making
Christ the focus of one's life,
Looking to Him for all that
Makes life wonderful,
Living in obedience to what He taught,
That challenges will suddenly cease?
In no way.
As many of us already know,
there are going to be difficulties.
But our day-to-day experience
Becomes, because of Christ,
Much more alive --
Healthier, happier, free --
The way our Father wants it to be.
Life becomes a real adventure.
And in the situations that once
Would have defeated us,
We now find ourselves
Having the mastery.
(As only Paul could put it: "We give thanks to God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son" (Colossians 3 and 13)
