GDLC Audio

Today’s segment of Colossians one brings up something that is hard for us to understand as Christian people. We believe that we are sinners...that’s not a problem. We believe that we are forgiven...and we love that truth. But do we really believe that we are “holy” in God’s sight? Do we even come close to trusting that we are “blameless” and “above reproach”? Those are amazing words and they are also hard words to believe because we know ourselves too well. We look in the mirror and know how sinful we really are. Today we’ll remember that it’s not how you look to yourself that matters, but how you look to God. And in our life in Christ, we are in His sight, “Holy, Blameless, Above Reproach”...thanks be to God!

For the most part we all understand that we have been created by God, and yet, we can even be more specific and say we were created by Jesus. We often call Jesus our “Redeemer” but we understand from God’s Word that He is also our “Creator”. John 1:1-5 reminds us that Jesus is in fact, our Creator God saying that “all things came into being by Him”, referring to Jesus. But Paul adds something to Jesus’ status as our “Creator” when he reminds us that we were not only created “through Him”...but we were also created “for Him”. In other words...He made us, therefore He owns us. Paul wrote in 1Corinthians 6 “You are not your own, you were bought at a price, therefore glorify God with your bodies.” We are not our own. We are created by Him. We are purchased by Him. We belong to Him. We are His. And that has definite implications on how we live our lives in this world! We remember today then, in our life in Christ we have been “Created Through Him and For Him.”

For the most part we all understand that we have been created by God, and yet, we can even be more specific and say we were created by Jesus. We often call Jesus our “Redeemer” but we understand from God’s Word that He is also our “Creator”. John 1:1-5 reminds us that Jesus is in fact, our Creator God saying that “all things came into being by Him”, referring to Jesus. But Paul adds something to Jesus’ status as our “Creator” when he reminds us that we were not only created “through Him”...but we were also created “for Him”. In other words...He made us, therefore He owns us. Paul wrote in 1Corinthians 6 “You are not your own, you were bought at a price, therefore glorify God with your bodies.” We are not our own. We are created by Him. We are purchased by Him. We belong to Him. We are His. And that has definite implications on how we live our lives in this world! We remember today then, in our life in Christ we have been “Created Through Him and For Him.”