PrayerBits
A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church
Saturday
Scripture lesson: Colossians 1:15-20 Creator not created
Time to reflect: Throughout Church history it concept of the Trinity and that Jesus was/is a part of that Trinity has been hard and many have rejected it. One of the common approaches was to think that Jesus was created, at birth, and then became divine at the Resurrection. Another approach was that Jesus was adopted by God and made divine at birth. Unfortunately, these explanations turn Jesus into a 2nd God rather than a person of the Trinity. Like the first chapter of John, this passage is forcefully explaining that Christ was there from the beginning and rather than a creature, is Christ is the creator.
Moving through the day: Meditate on the idea that the Creator of the world is also the Savior of the world, and is also our constant companion and sustainer (The Holy Spirit). Like a parent for a child. The three are actually one.
Scripture:
The Supremacy of Christ
15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16For 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. 17He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18And 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. 19For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20and 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.
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