One with Him: 7 Devotions on Our Union with Christ and Holy Week Readings

Our union with Christ, as John Owen wrote, “is the cause of all other graces that we are made partakers of; they are all communicated unto us by virtue of our union with Christ. Hence our adoption, our justification, our sanctification, our fruitfulness, our perseverance, our resurrection, our glory.”

When we understand union with Christ as not merely one step in the order of salvation, but as the umbrella which covers it all, then we can see how union with Christ is the story and summary of our salvation. “It embraces the wide span of salvation from the ultimate source in the eternal election of God to its final fruition in the glorification of the elect.” It “brings together every aspect of the plan of salvation, past, present, and future,” as John Murray wrote.

All the righteousness God required He has already provided for us in His Son. But we are deprived of all of this good until Christ is made ours. We must be joined together as Head and body, and Christ must dwell in our hearts by faith. Only when we put on Christ can we be engrafted into His body. Only then can we have fellowship of righteousness with Him and share in His gifts.

It is through faith alone that we can be forever secure in Christ. “In Him, you also, after listening to the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise” (Eph 1:13). Believe, and be one with Him. And ever after rest, and rejoice in His life.  Therefore we can say with confidence “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1).

David Attebury serves as an Associate Pastor at First Baptist Church Lindale, Texas, where he oversees evangelism and missions.