Christ is all we Need all the Time

In high school or college, were you the one who showed up at a reunion after ten years of being in the world, thinking that people may have changed and grown up and the people you knew were now reasonable, rational, and kind adults, only to realize most of them had not changed? Many were divorced, remarried, or living in sin together with no commitment. Their lives were a mess and they were getting older, life did not afford them the highs that used to come in youth.

 
The cliques were still as strong as ever, and the ones who were wallflowers were still seen as an oddity, just as they were in high school.

In case you have never heard the term "wallflower," it means you were invisible (blending into the wall unseen) and sometimes mocked for being different from the herd.

 
Since you didn't think the way of the herd, you didn't follow what the herd was doing, and you dared to have your own thoughts while disliking all the superficial banter and competition so prevalent among the groupthinkers.

 
They were still as immature at the 10th reunion as they were when they were in high school. Were they just as immature at the 20th reunion and the 30th and even the 40th reunions as they were when they were in high school?

As I observed life, I realized that the most popular people in these institutions were always those who had somewhat of a rebellious streak, clamoring for attention as though their lives depended on it. And often their lives were empty without the group that propped them up.

 
Looking back, I see those who were the happiest in life were those who were selfless and comfortable in their own skin without the need for superficial validation from others.

 
I have also noticed that the people who turn to Christ and have the humility to admit their lost plight and seek Christ for salvation lose their need to be adored or seen as superior by people. Christ has given them such joy and peace as well as dependence on Him that they are as comfortable completely alone as they are with others who love Him as much as they do.

 
For the born-again believer, life is not about being better than anyone else, it is more about growing and becoming more Christ like within ourselves. Those who seek to be superior must always be judging the small matters of others to gain the feeling of dominance and supremacy.

 
Spiritual and emotional depth cannot occur when someone is dependent on others to prop them up. The emotional and Spiritual depth takes place from completely depending on Christ. Those who love Christ have no need to feel superior or dominant over anyone else. They know they were nothing before they had Christ, and after He came to live in them, He is everything to them.

 
There are those in the world who are able to operate without continual accolades from people however, they are never as completely free to be themselves as believers are who have Christ living in them.

 
Philippians 1:20-22 "20I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. 21For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22But if I go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. So what shall I choose? I do not know."

Galatians 2:20
"I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me."

There is a terrible and fearful burden associated with continually clamoring to be seen and elevated by people.

 
2 Corinthians 5:8
"We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord."

Romans 14:8
"If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord."

All praise to Jesus Christ that He is all we need all the time!!!!!