Quote for the Day
“…you have been brought to fullness.”
Today's Prayer
Jesus, today I thank you for your will in my life. Today, I entrust my very being to you and ask that your will be done, not mine.
Colossians 2:9-15
Colossians 2:9-15 (NIV)9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. 11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
Message
This letter of Colossians continues to go deeper and wider with each verse. The issue with most Christians is not that they do not do enough; they simply do not believe enough. They do not believe what they have received at the moment of salvation. YES, the Father has accepted them as sons and joint heirs to the Kingdom of God. YES, the Son gave His life that they may live eternally. But do they (we, I) believe the fullness of what we are hearing here in Colossians?“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives…”“…you have been brought to fullness.”“…God made you alive with Christ.”Colossians is all about the fact that it is Christ in YOU, it is the POWER of Christ, and it is not the goal of what I can do for God, but what God can do with, in, and through me. This is the exciting news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is all about HIM, and we become the beneficiary TODAY! Paul goes on to write that the circumcision (setting apart) of the sinful nature is not done by man but by Christ. This is the power we must see in our lives. The power of Christ, the very life of Christ in us is what separates us from our daily sin, not our struggling and fighting with the flesh, nor the Enemy, nor this world. It is 100% Jesus who redeems us from our struggles with all these things. We simply need to entrust ourselves into His daily plan and allow Him to do His work in us, following moment by moment His will as He leads us into His plan.
