Who holds all things together
He chose us in Christ
Before the foundation of the world. Ephesians 1:4
Read Colossians 1:15—17
My day, the day I have just lived, has come to me courtesy of Jesus Christ. The same thing has happened to everyone I have encountered this day. Those strong in faith, those wobbly in faith, those of no faith, all have their lives from him. Everyone whose life is falling apart; when the political form of life seems to be falling apart; every time my own life feels on the edge, one alone holds everything together. In him all things hold together. Surely I should take this moment to submit my life to the lordship and the claim and the inspection of Jesus, to voluntarily allow him to hold my life together around its true centre.
Lord Jesus Christ, you are the image of the invisible God. You make God known. God makes himself known in you. And in you I see that God is very attractive to me, very full of life. Full of true life, because in you he speaks to me, he assures me of relationship at the core of my life, relationship with the source and origin of all life. So I am not a mistake. I am not lost. I am not meaningless or directionless. I am headed somewhere, and that somewhere is a homecoming. Coming to you will mean coming to myself also, only better than the shadow that I am. It will mean coming to my true image, as one made in you and for you. Gather the things of my life and of those people I have thought about this night. Gather those things that seem to be falling apart, and redirect them to yourself.