1:22
God has placed all things under Christ’s feet. He has also been appointed as head over all things for the church. We see in all these verses two key things. First, God is in charge everything, everything is according to His will and purpose. Secondly, that will and purpose is established through and in Christ. When the church forgets this, as, sadly, it often does, we go astray. We need to be God centred and Christ focused.
1:23
The church is Christ’s body. We are the “fullness of Him who fills all things”. So the greatness of Christ permeates into the church. Now we need to be very careful how we understand this. All too often we start to think it is all about us. It is not all about us, but it is all about Christ in us. There are two great dangers. One is making too much of ourselves. The other is making too little of ourselves in Christ. If the focus is taken off Christ then we do indeed become nothing, but when our focus is properly on Christ life becomes very different.
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