The verses, set for reading and meditation, are excellent, they give us a small glimpse into God’s ’mind’. (Paul’s letter to the Colossians 1:15-22, NLT): “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 see and 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 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. But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News.”
As we can see from the above text, sin separates us from God – evil separates us from the ‘meaning of life’ as created, by Jesus. We cannot fully enjoy His creation if we are in conflict with Him. Evil separates us from what is wonderful and beautiful in this world – and permanently separates us from everything ‘good’ - for all of eternity.
I thought that Selwyn captured this point well, when he wrote this (from today’s study): “Sin throws into disorder every situation, both physically and spiritually, for evil is against the nature of reality. One preacher says of evil: ‘It is the will to live put into reverse.’ Humanity is allergic to evil. When we take it into our systems our inner selves revolt against it.”
Any comments?
Allergic to evil
The verses, set for reading and meditation, are excellent, they give us a small glimpse into God’s ’mind’. (Paul’s letter to the Colossians 1:15-22, NLT): “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 see and 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 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. But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News.”
As we can see from the above text, sin separates us from God – evil separates us from the ‘meaning of life’ as created, by Jesus. We cannot fully enjoy His creation if we are in conflict with Him. Evil separates us from what is wonderful and beautiful in this world – and permanently separates us from everything ‘good’ - for all of eternity.
I thought that Selwyn captured this point well, when he wrote this (from today’s study): “Sin throws into disorder every situation, both physically and spiritually, for evil is against the nature of reality. One preacher says of evil: ‘It is the will to live put into reverse.’ Humanity is allergic to evil. When we take it into our systems our inner selves revolt against it.”
Any comments?