… Christ is all, and in all. (Colossians 3:11)
St John Chrysostom once gave a homily in which he has Christ listing all the things He is to us and for us:
I am father, I am brother, I am bridegroom, I am dwelling place, I am food, I am raiment, I am root, I am foundation, all whatsoever you wish I am. If you are in need of nothing I will be even a servant, for I came to minister, not to be ministered to.
I am friend, and member, and head, and brother, and sister and mother; I am all; cling closely only to me. I was poor for you, and a wanderer for you, on the Cross for you, in the tomb for you, above I intercede for you to the Father, on earth I become for your sake an ambassador from my Father. You are all things to me, brother, and joint heir, and friend, and member. What more would you want? (Homily 76, Gospel of Matthew)
St Gregory of Nyssa offers a similar thought about becoming all things for us:
In the present life the things we have relations with are numerous, for instance: time, air, locality, food and drink, clothing, sunlight, lamplight, and other necessities of life, none of which, many though they be, are God; that blessed state which we hope for is in need of none of these things, but the Divine Being will become all, and in the stead of all to us, distributing Himself proportionately to every need of that existence. It is plain, too, from the Holy Scriptures that God becomes to those who deserve it, locality and home and clothing and food and drink and light and riches and kingdom, and everything that can be thought of and named that goes to make our life happy.
(Lazar Puhalo, THE IKON AS SCRIPTURE, p 110)
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