In His Hands        
The Whole World     
    
   Please see the scripture in Sunday's Views, if you missed it. 

   For those of us who think God may be far off, or otherwise busy, or uninterested, Paul helps us understand his nearness in Colossians chapter 1. 

   God created everything. Without Jesus, nothing was made that has been made. John 1:3. "Firstborn" (Col. 1:15) doesn't mean first created, but the Old Testament meaning, first in position. Also, Psalm 89:27. 

   Hebrews 1:2,3 speaks of the Son...heir of all things...through whom He created the universe. The Son...the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.  

   Paul also writes: Jesus is the firstborn of the dead. Here, it means first of a kind, the first to rise from the dead with a spiritual and immortal body. 
Also, 1 Corinthians 15:20. 

   When his human body presumably was still in the tomb, Jesus visited those under the earth.
  

everything...all things...representation

sustaining all things...powerful...risen from the dead

all his fullness...reconciling...making peace

   There is no place in heaven or on earth or under the earth that Christ isn't or has not been. He knows first hand human birth, hunger, thirst, rejection and cruel death.    

   We cannot hide. It is futile to deny him. He knows everything. He sends the Holy Spirit to indwell us, because we all need help, big-time! Jesus also said that He and the Father would make their home with us. What more can He do?   

   He wants to abide with us more than we can imagine.

   He's got you and me, brother, in his hands.

        Jimmy