All is Mine
The song "Yet Not I, but through Christ in Me" is written in four sections: Verse-chorus, verse-chorus, verse-chorus, verse-chorus. Each time the verse and the chorus link up. So yesterday we spoke about how Jesus is the gift of grace. He's our Redeemer, and He's all sorts of things to us. The first chorus picks up on that theme and says this: "To this I hold: my hope is only Jesus, for my life is wholly bound to His. Oh, how strange and divine I can sing: All is mine, yet not I, but through Christ in me."
Bound to Jesus
Each chorus starts with that phrase "To this I hold." And here they say "my hope is only Jesus, for my life is wholly bound to His." Is your life wholly bound to Jesus? Wholly as in W-H-O-L-L-Y - completely, entirely bound to Jesus. This is the Christian life. Everything we do is bound to Him.
Then the words say, "oh, how strange and divine I can sing: all is mine." And that's a wonderful truth today. "All is mine." Reminds me of Psalm 23 that says "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." (Psalm 23:1 NIV). "All is mine." I have all I need. Remember how the words also said that in the first verse? "There is no more for heaven now to give." "All is mine." It's the same type of idea that with Christ, with Christ, our only hope, we have what we need in this life.
Only Through Jesus
And then comes that line that is repeated at the end of every chorus and is the title of the song: "Yet not I, but through Christ in me." This comes straight out of Galatians: "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me" (Galatians 2:20 NIV).
So sing this chorus again with me, friends, because with Christ in us, when our lives are wholly bound to His, no matter what happens, we can sing "All is mine." There's no more for heaven to give because Christ is in me and that means everything.
