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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Colossians 1:12-23
True Christianity is not a religion, a collection of truths which one professes. It is the experiential knowledge of Someone. Christianity is Christ, known and lived out. We have been put into relationship with an incomparable Person — the Son of the Father’s love. He has given us a future in the light, a place in the kingdom, redemption, remission of sins, peace which Christ has made through His own blood (v. 20) . . . But what constitutes the grandeur of such a work is the grandeur of the One who accomplishes it. The apostle enumerates, as it were in a single breath, the glories of the Well-Beloved: what He is; what He has become; what He has made of us. He asserts His twofold pre-eminence: over the created universe, and over the Church; His twofold title of First-born of all creation (that is to say, the universal Heir of it), and the First-born from among the dead. Through Him life sprang from nothing in creation. It has also sprung out of the tomb in redemption. He is the Creator of all things in heaven and earth (v. 16). He is the Reconciler of all things on earth and in heaven (v. 20). Finally He is the Head who must have the first place in every thing: in the heavens, on the earth, and in our heart (v. 18).
