October 4

Jeremiah 2:31-4:18, Colossians 1:1-17, Psalm 76:1-12, Proverbs 24:21-22

Pray: Father, continue to show me Jesus that I might get to know You. Help me to see what Your saints can be rather than lament what they are not. Give me “eternal eyeglasses”.

Read: Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation. For through Him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see—such as thrones, kingdoms, and rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through Him and for Him. He existed before anything else, and He holds all creation together. (Colossians 1:15-17)

Edify: Jesus said of Himself, "If you have seen me you have seen my Father." Jesus existed before the creation was created. He participated in making the creation. Jesus also created things seen and things unseen. Then Paul shares that there are unseen thrones, kingdoms, and rulers. But all things, seen and unseen, are held together by Him. Mankind thinks of creation from the beginning in Genesis to the end in Revelation. But God writes about creation from the end towards the beginning. Jesus was crucified just over 2000 years ago. But the scriptures say He was crucified before the foundation of the world was laid.

You may have received Christ in the last few years but your name was written in the Lamb’s Book of Life from before the foundation of the world. Our perspective is “time” related. God’s perspective is “eternal”.

Practice: Practice wearing “God glasses”. See people through His eyes and the eyes of eternity. It will change how you think about others and how you treat them. See them as “finished” and not “under construction”. We see our own children that way. Them as forever young. Rather, we envision them as having full and complete lives with families of their own. But looking at a newborn baby one might wonder how the vision for the future is possible. But it is the reality we operate in. From the day that little bundle of joy is born we prepare them for adulthood. We need to see possibilities and spiritual adulthood even in the newest of Christians.