The Supremacy of Christ

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

June 5, 2025

The Supremacy of Christ

Christ is the visible image of the invisible God.

    He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation,

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.

Colossians 1:15-16 

This beautiful passage on the Supremacy of Christ, Colossians 1:15-20, is some of the most beautiful and profound prose in the entire Bible. Please, take time today to sit before this passage and allow God to speak deeply into our soul.

I understand this passage as describing in part the theology of creation in Genesis 1-3, as God lovingly looking at a world that did not exist and speaking it into being through the power of His Word.

God’s creative order has been especially beautiful of late in my part of the world. Spring has sprung, the hummingbirds have returned and all throughout our yard the colors of the rainbow are replicated in our blooming flowers. Our part of the world, Western North Carolina, was devastated by the storm Helene last September. She left countless scars across our landscapes. This spring, God is repairing the damage and restoring the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains we so dearly love.

My Takeaway: Yes, everything was created through Jesus and for Jesus, but also created for us, as God made us stewards of His creation. I am blessed to see so many signs of Jesus’ creative genius all around me, and I am learning to allow His creation to ground me in his grace for today.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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