“18And 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.” – Colossians 1:18 (ESV)
He being Jesus. He is many things. For the purpose of my study today, “He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead”.
Jesus was born into a manger and was celebrated as our savior, and when He died and raised from the dead, He began His reign. He was the first to be raised from the dead; beginning there.
It is up to us to accept and believe in Christ as the beginning. We know it based on the biblical accounts. We know it as we are taught in Sunday School and Church. We know it as we all focus on a belief system. We now need to accept, believe, and act on the truths as we know them.
Everything in my life has to come second to Christ and my belief in He as the beginning. I am only a vessel from which Christ can work. I know and now should be fully believing in Christ and the beginning.
When you are thinking of Christ, where do you place Him in your hierarchy of belief systems? Are you acknowledging what you know to be true about Christ? Will you place Him at the beginning?
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