What's in the name?

It seems proper to take a few moments to explain the purpose behind the name I selected for this blog. I know it isn't terribly creative, but what do you expect from a government-schooled kid. At any rate, the title refers to the totality of life under the Lordship of Christ Jesus. When Jesus gave what has come to be called "the great commission", He Himself explained that while the scope of his mission was very large (baptizing and disciplining all nations), He had the power and authority to accomplish such a lofty plan. He prefaced the commission with, "All authority in Heaven and Earth has been given to me". Note how much of the universe's authority is claimed by Christ. All of it! All heavenly authority is His! Angels bow to Him and carry out His commands. He is their rightful master. But, all Earthly authority is likewise claimed by Him! He, on that day many years ago, declared Himself as the potentate of all sultans and senators, kings and caliphs, presidents and prelates. They all must answer to the Lord of lord's and the King of kings, whether they exercise authority in the family the church or the state. The apostle Paul explains in his first epistle to the Corinthians that Christ must reign, "till he hath put all enemies under his feet". But this life under the present reign of Christ, life under the Son, is the antithesis of life under the sun, which is spoken of in the book of Ecclesiastes, where Solomon is explaining the worthlessness of a life lived with a solely horizontal perspective. If one wakes in the morning, by God's grace I might add, to carry on his miserable existence for his own money, power, prestige, etc., apart from Christ. He is living life under the sun and will eventually realize, as Solomon explains, it is a "chasing after the wind". Futile! Vain! Ultimately worthless! This is the thesis of all the "isms" of history: materialism, humanism, rationalism, pluralism, modernism, postmodernism, and on and on goes the bedraggled list of failed suspects in the desert of philosophical ideas. Life under the Son, lived for Christ, is the sole answer to the question, "What is my ultimate purpose in life." Therefore, this blog, will he my humble attempt to flush out this weighty thesis as it affects the day to day happenings of the 21 st century and reminisce on its success or failure in previous generations.