Devotion:
Read Colossians 1:15-20.
What does God look like? That’s a classic child’s question, isn’t it? Well the answer is Jesus. We learn this in our passage for today. “Jesus is the image of the invisible God.” (Colossians 1:15) But what does that mean? It means that if we want to know what God is like –then we look at Jesus. In this passage we call the “Supremacy of Christ,” Paul goes on to explain what it means for Jesus to be the visible image of the invisible God. Before creation began, before anything had been created, before there was anything: there was God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. That means Jesus, long before he was born on earth, was part of the creation of the world! Jesus is more than merely a prophet or a good teacher. Jesus is not just equal to God, he is God, a central truth to Christianity. Everything started in him and finds its purpose in him. He holds the entire earth together and protects it. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together. Paul teaches that Christ is fully human and fully divine, and through his resurrection we have been given the way of salvation. In this passage Paul keeps Christ as the central focus and makes clear to the church at Colossae that Christ is to be the center of their worship. His message is the same for us today. Christ made it all and then Christ paid it all so that we can have a relationship with the living God. We want to make Christ the center of our focus every day.
Personal Worship Option:
Dear Father,
We have not seen you. We do not even know what it might mean to see you. But you have shown us Jesus, and because we have seen him, we have seen you. Thank you for Christ, the invisible God. Thank you for creating all things through him who is the first-born of all creation. Help us grasp what it means that everything was created by Christ and that all these things hold together through him. Help me to make him the center of my worship today and always.
In Christ’s name I ask. Amen.
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