Meditations on the Book of Colossians
July 8, 2020
Faultless
Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in
his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and
you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
Colossians 1:22
Read: Colossians 1:21-23
It is impossible to comprehend
Paul’s beautiful prose about the supremacy of Christ (Colossians 1:15-20) in
just one reading. Actually, the more you read it, and explore different
translations, the more awe inspiring is the wonder of His Majesty, Christ Jesus
our King, our Savior. As we try to digest the wonder of Christ, Paul makes an
astonishing statement: “He made peace
with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross.
This includes you . . .
(Colossians 1:20-21a Emphasis mine).
Paul has drawn a diagram of the
supremacy of Christ, from before creation to the present moment, and placed an
X right in the middle and said, “You Are Here!”
But wait! There’s more!
Not only are you on the inside of
God’s reign, His Kingdom, Paul says when you come into the presence of God, you
are “holy and blameless and irreproachable before him (Colossians1:22 NRSV). All this was
accomplished by means of Christ’s blood on the cross. Hallelujah!
Paul cautions us to not “drift away from the assurance you
received when you heard the Good News” (Colossians 1:24). Picking up on this,
Miles Stanford noted that to taste the grace of God is one thing, to be
established in it, and to manifest it in our character, habit and daily life is
another. We don’t earn God’s favor or our faultless right-standing with Him.
But it does take our full commitment to let God transform us into a new person
by changing the way we think.
My Takeaway: The new life that is ours in Christ has made us holy
and blameless and irreproachable before God. Today take the time to draw a diagram of your own life.
In the very center of your paper write: holy
and blameless and irreproachable. Next list your character traits, your
habits and the routines of your daily life. How does your life, as you are
choosing to live it, reflect the truth of what Christ has accomplished by the
means of his blood on the cross? Invite the Holy Spirit to so transform your
life that the life of Jesus (holy and
blameless and irreproachable) may be made visible in your mortal flesh.
(See 2 Corinthians 4:11 NRSV)
For an added blessing go
here: (Flawless
by MercyMe)
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.)
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way of life. The meditations are
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