Observation: Paul uses some of the most sweeping, cosmic terms to be found in the whole Bible to describe Jesus: "the image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation firstborn from the dead...in him all things hold together." From very early on in the Christian movement, people were aware of Jesus as much more than a good teacher. He is the power and love of God incarnate. "Through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things."
Application: Sometimes Christians like myself get kind of an inflated ego. We sometimes get the impression that we are directly responsible for how much Jesus there is in the world. We try to bring Jesus to people, or bring people to Jesus, or try to close some imagined distance between Jesus and ourselves or our society. That's impossible. Know why? Because anywhere we go, Jesus is already waiting. He's everywhere. In him all things hold together. And God has already reconciled the whole world to himself. We can not make any of that happen. It already did. Our only job is pointing it out.
Prayer: Jesus, let me greet you in each new day, in each new person, in each new opportunity to love, where you have been waiting since before time. Thank you for making peace between our world and the Father. Amen.
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