All Created By God's Son

ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY GOD'S SON, AND EVERYTHING WAS MADE FOR HIM. Colossians 1.16.

Our obsession with ourselves has made us very selfish. We consider that the whole universe of God must orbit around us. All people must help us and serve us. God must devote Himself to take care of us and our needs. If things do not work that way, we complain and find fault with everyone else and even God! It is good for us to learn to shift the centre from ourselves to God! Then we will get our perspective right. You must re-orientate your thinking according to God’s perspective revealed in His Word.

The greatest commandment is, ‘love the LORD your God with all your heart, soul, and strength” (Deu 6:5) So great was His passion for God that He taught us ‘to seek God first’. Dear believer, do you love God with such fervour and passion? Think for a moment, ‘how much time do you have for God after all your work and worries?’ Probably very little indeed. For some, none at all. We act as though God exists for us: to hear all our prayers and provide all our needs!

In today's reading, we have one of the crucial Christological passages (teaching or revelation about Christ) in the Scripture. It is not often that you get an opportunity to think solely about our Lord Jesus and his uniqueness and supremacy. So let us forget our problems and needs (God has committed Himself to care for us anyway!) and spend a little time contemplating on Our Lord Jesus Christ alone!

The apostle Paul says, “Christ is exactly like God, who cannot be seen. He is the first-born Son, superior to all creation. Everything was created by him, everything in heaven and on earth, everything seen and unseen, including all forces and powers, and all rulers and authorities. All things were created by God's Son, and everything was made for him. God's Son was before all else, and by him everything is held together. He is the head of his body, which is the church. He is the very beginning, the first to be raised from death, so that he would be above all others. God himself was pleased to live fully in his Son” (vs 15-19).

Often we think that Christ Jesus exists only to be our Saviour and Helper! God made Him so because we sinned! But the eternal purpose of God had been and still is that “HE WOULD BE ABOVE ALL OTHERS”! The apostle Peter says, “you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light”. Dear believer spend as much time (or more) to praise your God and Father and the Lord Jesus Christ as you do for your petitions and prayers!

Pray and practise with me: Dear Lord, You have created me to give You praise. Let me make it a priority to love You, praise You and lift You up in my everyday life. Amen.