Scripture text for Friday, April 30th, 2010: Colossians 1:1-23
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Is this world all there is? Is what we see and experience the beginning and the end of life? Is Willy Nelson right when he says, and I am paraphrasing here, “Life’s not so good and then you die?” Or, alternatively, is there more to this world and our experience than meets the eye or than that we know from our experience?
In Colossians 1, Paul describes Christ and in his description it is clear that he understands Christ to be beyond this world, before and above and sovereign over creation. Yet Christ also physically entered creation as the divine Son of God, the “image of the invisible God” (v. 15), and made redemption possible. The language of this passage is stirring and lofty. The passage reminds us that the most significant things have and will continue take place beyond our ability to see.