Jesus… Mighty God

And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Colossians 1:17

Do we really know this Jesus that Christmas is all about? Would we boldly believe that a baby arrived in a backwoods Judean town, born to a Jewish peasant girl while an empire crushed her people… and that this unknown, oppressed, impoverished little human was actually the omnipotent God of the universe? That’s the truth of it as the gospels reveal it and as in this passage the apostles proclaimed it. Jesus is the Mighty God!

Paul’s words here have Jesus securely holding the universe in the pinch of His thumb and forefinger. It is hardly an exertion! He existed before “all things”. Jesus is the Eternal God, from everlasting to everlasting, the One Who was, and Who is, and Who is always to be. He is God Almighty Who entered into this universe He designed. He is in control. He is before time, in time, beyond time. Jesus is the Eternal God. That was the person they laid in a cattle trough for a cradle and Who relied on His mother’s care to survive as an infant. Even there and then Jesus is God. This is mind blowing stuff!

But wait… there’s more. Paul goes on to say that, by Jesus, “all things hold together.” Jesus made the universe and as God, He controls it. It would all just disintegrate… easily “poof” out of existence were it not for His sovereign Lordship over all creation. Again… that baby in Bethlehem? He’s that powerful! He is the key to the universe. He keeps it all together. He also keeps us and our lives all together!

Jesus… Mighty God!

You Who are before all things… Who always has been and always will be… You know my times… are in my times… literally You are my life since all this is true! And You are before my life right now holding ME all together. You shower grace and life on ME. You, my Lord Jesus, are the Mighty God.

Amen