“For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, everything got started in Him and finds it purpose in Him.” – Colossians 1:16 (MSG)
It’s taken me this long to really come to understand what this means.
Going to church and seeing friends was great for a long time, but it didn’t answer all those seemingly unanswerable questions.
I always thought I needed to do something, I needed to take on a new responsibility in church, I need to do something else. Maybe those will make me feel really good and close to God. But as the book says…
It’s not about me.
I need to be guided by God and follow Him. He knows all, and he wants what’s best for us all. So where else should we turn? He provides the Holy Spirit, the Bible and the Church to guide us along.
I think back on what Pastor Dave says so often, that the church must be a house of prayer. And prayer is the cornerstone of a realtionship with God, it’s our close communication with Him. We need to focus on it to build that realtionship with God.
It is a comforting feeling knowing that God has had everything in mind since before everything, and thought about me, but more on that tomorrow.