Abiding in the real...

October 28, 2012

 

One of my favorite (if that’s the appropriate word for this) passages of Scripture is found in the first chapter of Colossians.  It became more significant in my life of worship several years ago when we were having an extended time of fasting at our church.  We had noon worship during that season and one day as I sat in the sanctuary my eyes came upon this passage and it was so fresh and new and it almost seemed like it was highlighted.  It’s Colossian 1: 15-22.

 

“Christ is the visible image of the invisible God.

He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation,

for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth.

He made the things we can’t see – such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world.

Everything was created through him and for him.

He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together.

Christ is also the head of the church, which is his body.

He is the beginning, supreme over all who rise from the dead.

So he is first in everything.

For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him

 God reconciled everything to himself.

He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth

by means of Christ’s blood on the cross.

This includes you

who were once far away from God. You were once his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. 

Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.” (NLT)

 

Last week at the soul healing prayer conference as several of us sat in the prayer room, this passage again came to my mind.  We had taken turns reading passage aloud.  There is something so powerful about hearing the Word together.  The truth of this passage seemed to just hover in the air and we could breathe it in and out together.  The healing and restoration so clearly presented in this passage speaks with such clarity of the wholeness of God and the reconciliation that offers wholeness to us and it’s totally, completely REAL!  I find so much hope and joy in this!!!  It’s sooooo incredible to just sit and consider this!  As we sat together last week, all of us were deeply touched and a little overwhelmed by God’s goodness and loving intent toward us.  The sufficiency of Christ feels so safe and complete.

Potter’s Wheel gathers Sunday evenings at 5:00. We’ll enjoy a potluck meal and continue to share the journey together…on the Potter’s Wheel. COME JOIN US! For more information, please feel free to contact me.

 

God’s Peace,

Mary