Who Is In?

As I write this on Monday, March 16th, Selection Sunday has just occurred. If you are not familiar with Selection Sunday, it is where the teams for the NCAA basketball tournament are selected and placed in the bracket. I am sure it started last night, but it is in full swing this morning, talking about who is in and who is out. How do they decide? A committee gets to gather and look at things like wins and losses, strength of schedule, and various other things to decide. I have never been a part of the committee, but I am guessing there are some difficult decisions. Some people agree and some disagree with those decisions. So if you are a college basketball fan, it gives you something to talk about.

I am thankful that my status in Christ is not dependent on a committee of humans. Could you imagine a human committee trying to decide who is in Christ and who is out? What would you look at? Wins and losses versus sin? How difficult your life was or any other plethora of factors? What if the committee did not know certain things or were biased toward me? I would be much more nervous than those teams sitting and waiting to see if they got in the tournament.

If we do not make it into Christ on the basis of a human committee, how do we get in Christ? The Bible answers that question in Galatians 3:27 when it says, “For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.” If I want to be in Christ, I must be baptized into Christ. The basketball team in the tournament can be put out of it if they lose. We can be put out of Christ if we do not continue in Him. 1 John 1:5-10 teaches us that we must continue to walk in the light. What is that light but the way of Christ? Are you in Christ? The answer is very simple if we go back to the Word of God.