Challenge: Trust

For the first half of Col 1, I  had been slowly moving through verse by verse, analyzing the context but gleaning much from individual verses.  Then I hit Col 1:15-23, and that changed.  Maybe it was me.  Maybe it was context.  I don’t know.  But, I haven’t gleaned nearly as much in a verse by verse push.  Instead I’ve spent several days on the whole passage, trying to wrap my mind around its message.

One thing I was convicted of today was my hopeless attitude.  I’ve always thought I had faith, but this morning all of the things I never bother to pray for filled my mind.  It’s not that I just trust God so phenomenally with them that I don’t have to take the time to voice an articulated prayer.  It’s that I have a hopeless attitude.  For all of my statements about praying over every little thing because God cares, I have realized that I just don’t trust Him or take Him at His Word!  Ouch!

This first chapter of Colossians is crystal clear.  Jesus Christ is Lord.  He has dominion over all.  It was all made through and for Him.  Right now the Father is mercifully holding back from the enforcement of all things submitting to the Son.  But that doesn’t mean the Son does not have the authority, power, or might.

The Lord’s Prayer begins with a plea for the Father’s kingdom to come and His will to be done here on earth as it exists in heaven.  I am challenged to practice that in my own prayer life.  To be bold enough to pray it.  To allow my heart to be transformed to the point that I not only say it but believe it.  To actively replace hopelessness with trust.  May I take Him at His Word.