Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Colossians 1:18, “And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.”
Cohesiveness means that there is something sticky.
We stick together.
There is a fellowship, there is a knitting, there is a bonding.
The bonding is not because we agree mentally on certain things.
It is because the Christ within us automatically coheres and bonds us together.
We feel that fellowship, that joy, that oneness.
We are not detached units by ourselves.
We are not divided or separated.
There is a sense of togetherness.
There is a sense of flow.
What is this?
It is Christ!
It is not just a good feeling.
It is Christ who is the cohesive factor holding everything together.
As we experience Christ and know Him, He Himself becomes the holding factor.
Notice how Paul continues from “in Him all things consist” to Colossians 1:17-18, “He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.”
Verse 18 shows us the practical way that we can enjoy the experience of this cohesiveness.
It is by all of us allowing Christ to have the first place in all things, to be everything to us, and to be the center of our being, so that our relationship with one another is Him.
He is before everything.
He has the priority.
I do not handle my flesh.
I do not handle my reactions.
I do not handle my resentment.
I do not handle my hurt.
I do not handle my problems.
I do not handle my self.
I am not qualified.
I simply handle Christ.
I handle Him first.
I give Him first place.
I am not qualified to be my savior.
He is my Savior.
He is my life.
He is my relationship with my self.
He is my relationship with the Father.
He is my relationship with sin.
He is my relationship with the flesh.
He is my relationship with the world.
He is my relationship with the devil.
He is my relationship with the law.
He is my relationship with all the saints.
Christ is my life.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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