Jesus Made Peace for Us

Scripture:
"For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross."
(Colossians 1:19-20)

Wow, it pleased God that "all his fullness" dwelt in Jesus and through the blood of Jesus he reconciled to himself "all things", both in heaven and earth. God put everything of himself on the line and in exchange won back, so to speak, "making peace".

I started off today by thinking about how the peace of God came to us through the blood of Jesus Christ in the last part of verse 20 but when I expended the focus to include all of verse 20 and verse 19, I began to see all the implications that one has to really meditate on to begin to see.

For the first thing, not only was Jesus God incarnate, but everything God is, was in Jesus. That is ALL of God was in Jesus and this pleased him. The second thing, not only did he, through the blood of his son, do the work of reconcilation, but he did it for EVERYTHING. That is there was nothing that was not covered in the reconcilation process. That includes all things on the earth and all things in heaven. (Note is does not say anything about "under" the earth."

The implication seems clear that the converse of this was also true. That is that everything needed this reconcilation and that there was nothing that did not need this reconcilation. In addition, that the only way that he could "win back", that which he had lost to sin, he would have to give "all of himself" to reconcile all things back to himself. I see a HUGE, celestial battle before this reconcilation and a HUGE "win" for God after the blood of Jesus. Peace was "made", implying also, that there was need for peace because there was such turmoil or chaos, as in Genesis 1.

This work that God did through Jesus Christ was HUGE as it says in Isaiah 53, "the chasetisement of our peace was upon him," and not only was His peace upon us, but by his "stripes we were healed" (thought for another blog posting.) Hallelujah.

Request:
That God would refresh us with His peace.

Prayer:
Thank you Lord for coming down and bring your fulness with you and reconciling not only us, but all of heaven and earth, to yourself. Thank you that by your blood, everything is already reconciled for. Help us believe what we read in your Word, that we already have this peace.