At the beginning of his letter to the Colossians, Paul makes some radical statements about Jesus. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. All things were created through him and for him. Everything holds together in him. God’s fullness dwells in him and he has reconciled all things to himself through the Son!

Big, heady stuff. Why does Paul use such big language? Why does Paul the need to say this in so many different ways, over and over again? The Colossians (like all of us) were distracted. They had many things, narratives, images around them beckoning them towards a certain kind of life.

In Christ, “all things” hold together. When we get distracted, the “many things” take our focus away from the one thing, the person of Jesus. Join us Sunday as we are challenged to see the many in light of the One.