Spiritual Duct tape?

What a great week! I know I am exhausted but it was totally worth it! For those that might not know we had Vacation Bible School this week and while they were not all here every day we had 41 children registered! That isn't counting the ten teens that were here as helpers throughout the week!!! And we aren't done yet as the kids will be singing and sharing on Sunday so plan to be here to hear and be blessed.

All week the kids were challenged to memorize Colossians 1:15-16

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For everything was created by Him, in heaven, and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.

This week as I was preparing to preach I just kept being drawn back to these verses, so this week we will deviate from our regular routine and spend the morning looking at Paul's explanation of the Gospel in Colossians 1. So much you could glean from these verses that we will come back and spend a few months walking through the book after we finish the Minor Prophets series.

One thing that really struck me as I was reading actually came in verse 17: He is before all things,
and by Him all things hold together. The longstanding joke is that Duct tape fixes everything right? But here we are told that it is Christ who holds it all together - not some super spiritual duct tape...

As I meditated on this verse I was struck by the complexity of it - I mean stop and think about it. There is nothing in this universe that is held together apart from Him. Let's think on that for a moment. This rock we call Earth is roughly 196.9 million square miles weighing in at an estimated  13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds hurling through space in a nearly circular orbit at 67,000 miles an hour around a huge flaming ball of gas and plasma. Yet we are at the perfect distance from the sun to support life. A little wobble here or there and we burn up or freeze and life is gone. "By Him all things hold together."  

Or let's make this a bit more personal. Consider the human body. If the blood vessels in one adult human body were stretched out, they would cover approximately 60,000 miles – enough to circle the earth’s diameter two and a half times! Or take for instance our synapses, the connections between neurons, which snap together like thinky Legos to create the immense network that is the human mind. The total number of these synapses is a mind-boggling 100 trillion. A number that's 1,000 times greater than the total amount of stars found within our Milky Way galaxy. "By Him all things hold together."

Today let's just sit back and ponder that, can we? We serve a great God whom, "by Him all things hold together"  We might try to use duct tape but duct tape for all its greatness it can't mend the rift between us and God. For that God used the cross upon which His Son redeemed us.

See you guys Sunday!