We cannot live without Christ. We are made in the image of God, Christ. Christ is our life itself and the reason we exist. Without Christ, we become like dust. (Gen2:7)
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
When the Holy Trinity God created man, He created it in the image of God. The image of God is expressed as Christ in 2 Corinthians 4:4. If so, our existence can exist only in Christ, the image of God, and when we are in Christ, we have the same value as Christ. God has made us really amazing.
Gen 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
But without Christ, who is the image of God, we are just dirt. We have no value. If we don’t know Christ, our existence, our lives, and everything of us are meaningless. And our lives are cursed.
2 Co 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Satan is still blinding our hearts and deceived us not to know Christ, the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ. This Satan blinds us so that we do not know that our life is Christ and that Christ is essential in all of our lives.
Col 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
When Jesus, who is the Christ, appears, should we realize that Christ is our life at that time? Then the life we lived becomes a life we lived in vain. Christ is our life and our daily life.
1 Jn 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
What makes us have eternal life? Because Christ is in us, we have life and eternal life. Do we really view Christ as our life? If not, we may not have our name in the Heavenly Book of Life. This is because the Heavenly Life Book is a book in which the names of those who have Christ in their hearts and who acknowledge Him as our lives are written. In conclusion, we cannot live without Christ and we cannot have eternal life.