WARNING - Work in Progress

WARNING - Work in Progress
WARNING - Work in Progress

Sunday, September 20, 2015

WARNING: PREACHY (& unapologetically Christian) – 9/20/2015

Colossians 1:15-23

When my second child was born, the first child did not care for it much.  Don’t get me wrong, the first loved and adored her little brother but it was apparent that she was not fond of the spotlight being taken off of her and placed on her new baby brother.  Her tendency was to dance around and make herself the center of attention in order to distract everyone from the new baby.

Most people are like that where Jesus is concerned.

Colossians 1:15-23 can be a difficult section of Scripture for those of us who want to believe that spirituality is at all about ourselves.  Each of us, like my firstborn child, really wants the attention of God to always be on ourselves.  Like a child who desires to have the picture she drew magneted to the refrigerator we desire that God think of us as the most special too.  And while God is happy to hang our drawings, the reality is that Jesus is the reason that God has a fridge in the first place.

Literally volumes and volumes of books have been written about Jesus but in just nine versus Paul’s statements about Jesus overwhelm us and cause us to realize that even more volumes could not exhaust his infinity.

So go ahead and read these short nine verses in Colossians 1:15-23, it will likely do you good to see the eternal nature of our Lord.


A RABBIT TRAIL:  In John 14 Thomas asks Jesus to “show them the Father” and Jesus replied that he and the father were one.  And in Matthew 5 Jesus said that he did not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it (complete it).  So when I put the pieces together I begin to see that God, as viewed through the lens of the Old Testament alone is not complete but God seen through the prism of Jesus is.  In these passages from Corinthians I see the utter eternity of Jesus as Immanuel (God with us)or the Word become flesh. 

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