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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