Day 281 – Colossians: What Christ has done

“𝐻𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑐ℎ, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦. 𝐻𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑. 𝑆𝑜 ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔.” 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠 1:17-18 𝑁𝐿𝑇

Read Colossians 1:1 to Colossians 2:23

Paul teaches clearly in his letter to the Colossians that Jesus Christ has paid for sin and reconciled us to God. And that He gives us the pattern and the power to grow spiritually. Jesus is God in the flesh, Lord of all creation, and the Lord of the new creation. He is the visible image of the invisible God. He is eternal, preexisting, omnipotent, and equal with the Father. He is supreme, complete, and perfect.  

And because Jesus is all this and more, we can centre our lives on Him. He is the head of the church, the body of His true believers. Christ is the founder, the leader, and the highest authority on earth. He requires first place in all our thoughts and activities.

It’s truly an awe-inspiring act of love that Jesus chose to walk on His own creation and to redeem us. To give us a way to unite with Him in an intimate and beautiful relationship and to die to our old selves.

Prayer: Father, thank You for choosing us through Your never-ending love for us. Thank You, Jesus, for taking on flesh just to shed it in death to open salvation for us. Amen.