The Preeminence of Christ

It has been three weeks. I humbly admit that it hasn’t been an easy time. I am learning to embrace my emotions and to cope with the fast pace of how things are moving. Over and over again, I have to remind myself of the purpose of things and continually seek God for guidance. It isn’t going to be about pride. Pain is real, suffering is real, death is real, and God is real. God did not say that men don’t cry, or there won’t be any suffering at this time, if I think I am suffering. But God promised eternal life and salvation to those who turn to Jesus Christ. 

It is a process of humbling myself before God. It is a time of bravely putting aside things of this world for the sake of Christ, knowing that we have our treasures laid up in heaven, not on earth. Yes, but what does that actually look like in our lives? How do we as sinners live a life worthy of God?

There is only one answer, Jesus. Only the gospel of Jesus Christ should rule our lives and whatever we do or think about, they only glorify Christ. Nothing else, no one else. I am confident of saying this because of the very person of Jesus, every single part of Him and who He is. 

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.Colossians 1:15-23, ESV