What we lost in Adam will
never be compared to the immense technology of Christ that restores us to all
things. Paul describes Christ in Colosians that he is before all things and him
al things hold together. In other words in him all things consists.
Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all
creation. 16 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. 17 And he is before all things, and
in him all things hold together. 18 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. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to
himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. 21 And you, who once were alienated
and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 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 I call us to imagine the speed in which God
reconciled all things to himself by the cross making amends for fallenness of
man, it dazzles us all. Probably we have imagined in our mental faculties and
the best that even theology can point us to is our future glorification will
happen at rapture. We have been catapult by theology to believe that our
complete glorification and redemption will happen in some future day at the
rapture as if the events to come are greater than the cross.
We have been left to imagine ourselves as filthy
and frail Christians awaiting for full adoption as sons hence glorification.
Theology and systematic theology has done its best to peg the necessary verses
to assert the finality of its belief system. While we are careful to wait for this
event many believers fail to grasp and experience the full meaning of resurrection.
We have yet to fully grasp the full meaning of reconciliation. This is because
people’s imaginations are filed with the thoughts of Adam; thinking ourselves
independent of God and then catapulting the things of God to ourselves.
Perhaps we need to appreciate if its God who did
the work of perfecting us, he did it completely and perfectly. There is no
eschatological event that adds substance , more substance than what we already
have in Christ and this is why Paul was so confident of imagining people
reconciled to Christ and was so confident in speaking the things to come.
He reconciled
the things in heaven and the things in earth. Vs 20 if you think of the things
on earth be it people, systems of governance, sickness, nature, animals. All
things on earth have been reconciled by Christ making peace through his blood.
Nnow lets allow our mental faculties too be catapult to the realm of the
unseen. The spiritual, where the cosmic powers are, even where the things to
come are including the future, end of days. Even those things even though not
abstract , all have beenreconciled by Christ making peace through his blood.
Perhaps we should be catapult by this eternal
activity of God in reconciling us to himself. The message bible puts verse 21 In
an awesome fashion
Yet you
are a case study of what he does,,,,,
If we imagine that we are the prime centre ; the
direct recipients of what God does, then we will appreciate the value of our
salvation, for the value of our salvation is directly proportional to the value
of our redemption.
is the high time we cast off every imagination that
sets itself ABOVE CHRIST. (2nd
cor 10:5) Every philosophywhether warped or not , it must find its right
destination in Christ.
The weapons of the gospel pulls down warped
imaginations, , erected barriers and separated mindsets. The gospel removes any
methods existing in your mind that you imagine can bring you to fullness. The
weapon of the gospel is lethal shaping your lifestyle into the structure of Christ.
Let us let our mental faculties to take an
unprecedented high. Let us be humble enough to imagine ourselves the same way
God imagines us; He imagines us and he feasts in the reality of our redemption.
The gospel is not a method towards God, its Revealing God incarnate and
dwelling in us in the person of Christ, halleluiah
You are reconciled to God
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