Daily Wisdom

1 Col 1:18b “… that in all things he might have the preeminence.”

Jesus was not revolutionary because He said we should love God and each other. Moses said that first. So did countless other religious/spiritual leaders. The world is poignant about the importance of love. Christian leaders will tell us that the point of religion is to get us to love each other. "God loves you" doesn't stir the world's opposition. However, start talking about God's absolute authority, holiness, Christ's substitutionary atonement, justification apart from works, the necessity of a new birth, repentance, baptism, communion, and the future judgment, and the mood changes considerably. Even love is not true love if separated from the “preeminence” from Jesus’ authority, Jesus is to be given preeminence (total supremacy). All too often, however, believers give Jesus eminence (importance), but not preeminence (finale say).

You can give without loving, but you can’t truly love without sacrificial giving…  HSAY

Daily Wisdom

'For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.’ Psa 8:5

When we look at the vast expanse of creation, we wonder how God could be concerned for people who constantly disappoint him. Yet, God still sees us as highly valuable, crowning of His creation for His glory and honor. And that’s the truth the scripture… we are for His glory and the supremacy of Christ, and not the supremacy of man. The Father did not create us for our life purpose, but for the purpose of His eternal glory in Jesus Christ.

‘… that in all things he might have the preeminence.’ (Col 1:18). Where is our supremacy needle for our life? Is it tilted toward self (man’s supremacy) and our wants, or is it tilted towards Jesus (Christ supremacy) and His glory in our life having preeminence?

God’s judgment and wrath is not based on what you have in life, but on why what you have in life being preeminent over Christ glory… HSAY