He Is Preeminent
DAY 46 WRITTEN BY: TRE WIGGINS-
Colossians 1:18
And 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.
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The crux of Colossians 1 is a focus on Jesus as Lord and God. In fact, He is the pinnacle of the Scriptures. He is the scarlet thread that flows through God’s word and what everything in the Bible ultimately points to.
Colossians 1:18 tell us that Christ is the head of the body, which is the church. If we count ourselves believers, we are part of the body of Christ. In brief, this means that Jesus is the head, or sole authority. He alone sets the pace and direction for the life of the body. He joyfully reigns over all underneath Him.
The rest of the verse tells us why this is significant. Because “He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything He might be preeminent.” What does firstborn from the dead mean? It means Christ, in His resurrection, has made a way for others to be resurrected to glorified bodies. He has gone before us. He is the first to pave the way. Because Christ died and lives again, when we die, we can live again as well. We can be made like Him because of his work on our behalf. When we die, that doesn’t have to be the final word. We can live again if we trust Christ to forgive us of our sin. This has happened so that He might be made supreme, or so that He might have first place. This is who the Scriptures say Jesus is. He is the one who can bridge the gap between life and death. He is God. And because of this, He is worthy of our worship.
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Father, we thank you for all Christ is to us. We are nothing without Him. But with Him, we have every spiritual blessing. None of which are we more thankful for than the relationship He’s made possible with You. He is everything to us, and we ask you today that you would cause us to treasure Him more than anything else in the world. May the eyes of our hearts be focused on Him and Him alone.
