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Colossians 1:15-18 (The Message)

Christ Holds It All Together
"We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God's original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body."

Firstly, read this magnificent interpretation about 3 or 4 times. You will be dramatically moved as you start to believe the magnitude of who Jesus Christ is for us in our lives and hearts and world. Jesus is our all in all. He is our beautiful saviour and healer and hope and everything and always. We can never (not in one million years) put Him on too high a pedestal, bow too low on the ground, worship too extravagantly with our hearts and voices and bodies, or stand in awe for too many hours and days and years before His glorious being. He is so other, yet He is right here, right now, holding us all together in the grip of His grace and love for us.

Everything about God that we can see and everything that we can't see is made sense of and is found complete because of Him. He makes sense of the nonsense of everyday life, and His death on the cross and resurrection from death completed our yearning and longing for a saviour. When our lives feel meaningless and hopeless and ridiculous and boring, we look at Him and realize that it all started and ends with Him, and we know that we have a reason to get out of bed each day, get dressed, get working and get loving the world. We look into His face and eyes and there we find our purpose and destiny.