Days portion for
reading - Col 2:11-23
Christ the Head – to be
honoured – Colossians 2:19
This
is the last post in our studies about Christ – the Head. Has it made a
difference to you as you have learned or rediscovered something of the wonders
of this truth about the saviour? Did it make you bow in worship as you realised
the way God has so carefully organised things? Was your reaction one of joy and
gratitude when you realised that God has included you in all of his purposes
because of your links with the Lord Jesus. Our reaction should have been all of
these things at the very least.
In
the verses preceding the one we are concentrating on today the writer has been
warning his readers of the dangers of false teaching about the Lord. They are
being warned that if they do not continue to give the Lord Jesus the prime
place of importance in their lives or to seek his guidance then they will fall
foul of the false teaching that was confronting them. By undermining the truth
concerning the saviour they were in fact not giving him his rightful place.
What about us? Could it be said of us “not holding the head”? Would the way we
live leave onlookers to conclude that we do not really honour the Lord Jesus? The is a major challenge!
In
Colosse there were men who thought, falsely, that they were the ‘last word’
when it came to what they knew. Imagine their shock when they discovered that
the Lord Jesus has no limit to his wisdom and knowledge, Col 2:3. The
knowledge that the Lord Jesus has is of incalculable value, it is described as ‘treasures’
and does not all lie on the surface. When valuable discoveries are made they
are normally the result of great searching and hard work. The more the
Christian gets to know the Lord Jesus the more they find treasures that are in
hidden in him.
The
false teachers in Colosse were promoting false worship. They promoted the
worship of angels and had promoted themselves through a type of humility that
was not God honouring, it was a form of self inflicted physical punishment -
see Col 2:23. They were dabbling in the things of the spirit world which is
a dangerous practise. The result of all
of this false teaching was that they had demoted the Lord Jesus and were not
honouring him as ‘the head’.
The Lord alone can unit the church and is the
means of its continued growth and good health. We need to be aware of the
beliefs we hold about the Lord Jesus as wrong teaching can seriously damage our
spiritual health.
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