Holding it Together
My husband, Brian, used to watch a show from Canada called “The Red Green Show”. In it, they would talk about the “handyman’s secret weapon” – duct tape. They would create hysterical elaborate contraptions completely held together by it – cars, machines – you-name-it. The humor lies in the absurdity of having all these items held together by something so flimsy.
Scripture says Jesus holds everything together. He is creation’s adhesive. Everywhere that we are falling apart, He’s the only One that can bring it back together in complete wholeness. Colossians 1:17 (AMP) says:
And He Himself existed and is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. [His is the controlling, cohesive force of the universe.]
Hebrews 1:2-4 (AMP) underscores this with this hefty scripture:
…has in these last days spoken [with finality] to us in [the person of One who is by His character and nature] His Son [namely Jesus], whom He appointed heir and lawful owner of all things, through whom also He created the universe [that is, the universe as a space-time-matter continuum]. 3 The Son is the radiance and only expression of the glory of [our awesome] God [reflecting God’s Shekinah glory, the Light-being, the brilliant light of the divine], and the exact representation and perfect imprint of His [Father’s] essence, and upholding and maintaining and propelling all things [the entire physical and spiritual universe] by His powerful word [carrying the universe along to its predetermined goal]. When He [Himself and no other] had [by offering Himself on the cross as a sacrifice for sin] accomplished purification from sins and established our freedom from guilt, He sat down [revealing His completed work] at the right hand of the Majesty on high [revealing His Divine authority].
Wow!
The truth is, any place in our hearts or lives that we are living as if we are apart from Him, we are duct taping our lives together. Some of us may look better than others, but at the end of the day, if what we are counting on is anything but Christ and His finished work, it is flimsy, temporal, and does not hold water. We are relegated to striving to make something work that intrinsically will not.
This is true in relationships, ways of being, ministry and vocation. That is why peace gets to dictate how we navigate through life (Colossians 3:15). That is Holy Spirit leading us in the way we should go.
At the end of the day, if it is under-girded by Jesus and what He did for us, it will stand and we can REST! We can be at peace!
I hope this blesses you and helps you to enter into rest, peace, power, and wholeness in a deeper way!
