January 1, 2015
1st Colossians, 15 -20
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The Son is the visible image
of the invisible God, the first-born over all created beings. For in him has
come into existence everything that is in the heavens and on the earth, the
visible and the invisible world, the Thrones and the World Guides, the Archai
and the Creator Spirits. All things were created through him and for him. He
was there before all else, and everything coheres in him. And he is the head of
the body, and his body is the great community of congregations. He is also the
very beginning, and the firstborn among
those who rise from the dead, so that he may be the One who goes before in all
thing and everything. For in him all fullness of God was pleased to dwell, to
transform and to reconcile everything to himself, laying the foundations of
peace through the blood of his cross.
Through him all beings on the earth as well as in the heavenly spheres
are to attain their goal.
January 1, 2015
1st Colossians, 15 -20
In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth. The earth was without form and void, darkness was over the surface of
the deep and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. Genesis
1
Thus begins creation; it is
dark and empty. Yet God’s bright spirit moves over the waters, and there
appears – a face.
What did the spirit of God
see as it hovered over the primal waters? Was it a reflection of His own face?
The intimation of our own? Could it be that the plan from the beginning was
that we human beings would one day wear the face of God? Is that what He saw in
the beginning?
A face is both the beginning
and a culmination of the process of creation, which so far has created the
faces of both animal and human faces.
There is a story in which a
man’s portrait, which is kept hidden in his attic, changes throughout his life
to portray the real inner state of his soul, while his outer face remains
handsome and youthful. Evolution, human development, continues. But now our evolution
and change happens through our own choices.
Christ, who was there at the
beginning of creation, is the God-Become-Human, the Human God. He came to help
us evolve ourselves, so that one day we too will wear our true faces, the face
of our true selves. One day, when God looks into our faces, he will see Himself
reflected there.
