Monday, January 9, 2006
Colossians 2:9-10 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.
HE CAME TO LIVE WITH US
Here Paul reminds us who Christ really is. He isn't half God. He isn't three-quarters God. Everything that fills God, fills Christ. And HE, fills US! The highest authority in the all the universe lives within YOU through faith in Christ Jesus. He Himself once said, "If any one loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him" (John 14:23).
So many people stand at the beginning of yet another year, wanting, desiring, knowing that something is missing. There's a hole in their lives that needs to be filled.
God is what is missing! Every man, woman and child that does not know Christ, stands at the beginning of this new year with a hole in their hearts where God belongs, and a monkey on their backs called sin.
That was how we stood before Jesus came into our lives. Separated from God and weighed down by sin. But God never wanted us to be separated from Himself. So He sent His Son to remove the burden of sin that caused our separation from God. Christ came and removed the burden of our sins, placing it squarely on His own shoulders. And in that empty space where our sin used to live, our Creator and Redeemer has move in to live with us for good.
