Character Study Day 3

Colossians 1:15-23

• "image of the invisible God"
• "firstborn over all creation"
• all things were created through him and for him
• 17: "He is before all things, and in him all things hold together" - the Glue
• head of the body (the church)
• the beginning
• "the firstborn from among the dead"
• in everything he has supremacy - the Supreme
• 19: dwelling place of God's fullness
• reconciles all things - has made me holy in God's sight, blameless, and without accusation while once I was "alienated from God" and was an "enemy in my mind"
• makes peace through his blood - wow.

I feel called to meditate on Jesus as the glue who reconciles all broken things and brings them back to beauty and wholeness. I have seen this in my life time and again. I have experienced being an "enemy in my mind" and feeling the darkness of being so far removed from God. And although I experienced this in depression, because I was a daughter of God who proclaimed His name, I still was not experiencing the true depth of this alienation, darkness, and depravity. What an incredible juxtaposition to grasp, that through His blood, peace is achieved. On a more tangible level, that even through the blood and shit in my life and in this world, Christ is working to turn it into PEACE. Christ as "the Glue"....I like the sound of that.