Are You OK? In Christ, I am Fine All the Time

If there was one question that used to set me off, it was:

"Are you OK?"

Such questions cause us to look at ourselves. That's what happened to Adam and Eve when they partook of the forbidden tree:

"And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." (Genesis 3: 7)

That's what they law. or the knowledge of good and evil, will do to us. It causes us to look at ourselves.

But Scripture tells us to keep our eyes on Jesus Christ:

"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God." (Colossians 3: 1)

This is what Paul is referring to when he counsels believers to bring all thoughts into the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians10: 5)
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Why can we do this? Because the righteousness which we cannot attain from the law according to our own efforts has been given to us:

"That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." (Romans 8: 4)

and

"And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith" (Philippians 3: 9)
Whether we feel OK or not, whether someone questions how we are doing, we must not resort to looking at ourselves, but remember who we are in Christ:

We are accepted in the Beloved (Ephesians 1: 6)

We are seated in high places with Christ (Ephesians 2: 6), which is part of the reason why we must keep our eyes fixed above, on Christ Jesus, because we are in Him, up there!

And if there is any other doubt that may spring forth in our minds, let us look to the Book of Hebrews:

"How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" (Hebrews 9: 14)

and then

"For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." (Hebrews 10: 14)

We have no need to be deceived like Adam and Eve, who heeded the serpent and then looked at themselves. Ignore the doubts in your mind and the disputes of others. In Christ, you are not only OK, you are fine all the time, infused with His righteous standing!