Restoration

Re:Verse passage – Colossians 1:15-24 (day four)

In Jesus, we see who God truly is. Jesus is the visible image of the invisible God. But we also see who we as humans are meant to be – reflections of God’s image and love. Jesus is the ultimate fulfillment of true divinity, but also of true humanity.

This miraculous person of Jesus, the one who singularly stands at the center of all space and time, is the one in whom all things find their creation and their restoration. Colossians reminds us that “…it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.”

Because Jesus is at the center all things, nothing is beyond restoration. In our darkest moments, we may think that we or a loved one is beyond repair, but Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection definitively say otherwise. Because of Jesus, nothing broken is beyond repair, nothing dirtied is beyond restoration, and nothing dead is beyond resurrection. Our bodies, our minds, and our spirits may groan now, but we find our strength knowing that whether it is in this life or the one to come, Christ is restoring all things to himself.