Because Christ Is All; All Things Are Yours Believer!

Francis Turretin wrote:

God is ours by reason of the communication of goods. He cannot be our God without all things belonging to him becoming ours; and as all things belong to God, ours also are all things in heaven and on earth: "All things are yours," says Paul, "and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's" (1 Corinthians 3:21,23). Ours are God's creatures on the earth to serve us; the angels in heaven to guard us (heaven as our native land); the earth as a place of pilgrimage, the world as an inheritance given to us with Abraham (Romans 4:13). Thus all God's promises are ours - of the present life as well as of the future; and the goods of God are ours - of grace as well as of glory: "The Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good things will he withhold from them that walk uprightly" (Psalm 84:11). A sun of all manner of blessing for the communication of good things; a shield of invincible protection for the repelling of evils, so that we may rightly infer with Paul that nothing can hurt us because God is for us ("If God is for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:31); and with David that we shall want nothing because God is our shepherd ("The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want," Psalm 23:1) - because he denies nothing to those who fear him, but grants all things liberally and blesses us with all spiritual blessings (Ephesians 1:3). "Christ is all in all" in grace (Colossians 3:11); "God will be all in all" in glory (1 Corinthians 15:28); "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son" (Revelation 21:7).

Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, trans. George Musgrave Giger, ed. James T. Dennison Jr., vol. 2 (Phillipsburg: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1994), 181.