Keeping It All Together This Christmas

 

 

When I braced my camera against this old fence, I noticed it didn't move. Upon inspection I surmised the fence didn't wobble because new screws were holding the weathered rails against its well-worn pickets. 

An old fence like this one will stand as long as its connections hold fast. And its connections are more likely to hold when they're maintained. The integrity of the whole structure depends on what holds it together.

What holds you, and yours, together?

Who secures your life, when life gets difficult? How do you, and yours, stay together when it feels like everything is falling apart? What keeps you connected, in a loose and shaky world?

It's time to ask the One who holds absolutely everything together to hold us together too. Our Savior has come and He is far more powerful than any of the trials threatening to wear-us-down, shake-us-up or tear-us-apart. It's not time to give up and let go. It's time to get a grip. Jesus is leading His Church into very difficult fields of ministry, and in a world where folks will publically behead young children because they refuse to renounce Jesus as their Lord and Savior, this is not the time to get wobbly.

Jesus got us out of the pit we were in.
He got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating.
He reveals the GOD who cannot be seen.
He will be with us in worship this weekend and you are invited to join Him.

  

Colossians 1:13-18  -  God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He’s set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much, the Son who got us out of the pit we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating. We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body.