PrayerBits for Tuesday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Tuesday

Scripture lesson: Colossians 1:15-20 Christ is...

Time to reflect: Paul, here is trying to express the inexpressible. Human words tend to be limiting or else vague. Paul is trying to say that Jesus is beyond all limitations, and IS God, not just A god nor a subordinate creature. So he uses a series of images and theological expressions. Rather than taking this passage apart and looking at each statement, let us step back and feel the overall effect of it, perhaps taking the opening statement as a summary: “[Christ] is the [visible] image of the invisible God...”

Moving through the day: What ways would you express the idea that Christ was God and not just another person? What does that mean to you?

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.