Colossians 1:17 "He is before all things in in Him all things hold together."
I was lying in bed a few months ago and suddenly the thought hit me: It wouldn't take much for this to all fall apart. "This" being my life. I was especially thinking about my kids and I really felt strongly that there was only a thin string holding everything together in my life, and if it broke, then all hell would break loose. And I use that term literally, not flippantly. It's a very crippling thought, thinking it can all fall apart at any moment.
Then I was reassured by God: It is held together by a thread, but that thread is Christ and it will never be broken.
One of the main themes of Colossians is the Sufficiency of Christ in all things. I've been reading through it a lot lately, because I'm not sure that I truly believe it. If I truly believed that Christ was sufficient for everything, I would be living a different life, a more powerful and courageous life. Therefore I felt compelled by the Spirit to read this letter and I have am struck by the above verse - that Christ hold all things together. He is the Divine Thread, He has been there since the beginning, and in Him there will be strength and power.
This is a crucial point. If you don't think that He is sufficient, you will either move forward cautiously or not move forward at all. We can step out in complete faith that it will not all fall apart. When the economy appears to be crumbling and wars break out and "nature" runs rampant over cities, we can still move forward and know that our children, when they grow up, will also be able to move forward.
This is a very comforting thought for me. Now I can exhale. Now I can move.
7 comments:
colossians is a great book. chapter 3 is a powerful piece of scripture for me.
Excellent thoughts and I think it's it important to continually have this sense of wonder and awe like this. Thanks for sharing
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