Too many people seem to live from one moment to another rarely considering what their lives mean. However, there may be moments when a person pauses to consider what matters more than anything else. We would say that we were created by God and for him. True meaning in life can only be found in relationship with God. In him is life in all its fullness.
But how do we connect with God to enjoy the fullness of life found only in him? Is it through our self-effort in religious observance? In considering this question, T F Torrance would say we must avoid thinking and acting from a centre in ourselves. We must rather think from a centre in Christ. That’s the way Jesus lived before his Father. He said, “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.” Just as Jesus was always attentive to his Father acting from a centre in his Father, we must live from a centre in Jesus. For example, we stop asking, what would Jesus do in this situation as if he were dead? Attentive to the living Jesus, we rather ask, Jesus, what are you doing here and now? And how can I get in on what you are doing so that I move with you in this situation?
In union with Jesus, we now have a new centre of orientation and meaning for the whole of life. We can now say, I live in Christ and Christ lives in me so that we think and act from a centre in him by the Spirit.