Call to Me
Colossians 1:15-23
"This is what the Lord says, he who made the earth... 'Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.'"
(Jeremiah 33:2-3)
During the time of the Old Testament kings, Israel was a mess. In ruins because of her sin, she was a people not enjoying God's best for her. Her rejection broke His heart, and He longed to restore her so they could be in relationship once again. Into this moment God speaks some of the most hope-filled verses in Scripture. Communicating through His prophet-spokesman, Jeremiah, the Creator of the universe said, "Call to me." These words are for us today, too! "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."
Imagine, the Creator-God sharing His great and unsearchable mysteries with His creation. Why would we not want to step into that place of intimacy and trust with Him? Is it even still possible? Yes, because He has made us, has loved us, and has drawn our hearts to Him (Romans 8:30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.). He urges us to call out to Him, and He lovingly shares the mysteries of His love with us through His Word and through His Son, Jesus. Will you call out to Him today?
INSIGHT
In Jesus we find "all the fullness of the Deity" in a human body (Colossians 2:9). Call to Him, and you are calling to God.
READ THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR
Numbers 35-36
Psalm 79
John 21
Colossians 1:15-23
Colossians 1:15-23
New Living Translation (NLT)
Christ Is Supreme
15 Christ is the visible image of the invisible God.
He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation,[a]
16 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.
17 He existed before anything else,
and he holds all creation together.
18 Christ is also the head of the church,
which is his body.
He is the beginning,
supreme over all who rise from the dead.[b]
So he is first in everything.
19 For God in all his fullness
was pleased to live in Christ,
20 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.
21 This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. 22 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.
23 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. The Good News has been preached all over the world, and I, Paul, have been appointed as God’s servant to proclaim it.
Footnotes:
a. Colossians 1:15 Or He is the firstborn of all creation.
b. Colossians 1:18 Or the firstborn from the dead.
GOD'S UNCHANGING LOVE [PART 2]
Fear can be a powerful motivation to take action, but hope is a better one. Though we are commanded to fear God, he also calls us to live our lives in light of our hope in Christ.
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