Lyrics
Colossians 1:15-20
The Message (MSG)
Christ Holds It All Together
15-18 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.
18-20 He was supreme in the beginning and?leading the resurrection parade?he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe?people and things, animals and atoms?get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.
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Meaning & Inspiration
“The Intro – Colossians 1:15–20 (MSG)” is a spoken Scripture selection rather than a conventional verse-and-chorus song. Its text presents Christ as the visible revelation of the unseen God, and as the one through whom all creation began and continues to hold together. The passage also names Christ as the head of the church and supreme in resurrection.
The closing movement shifts from creation and supremacy to reconciliation. Christ’s death and shed blood are described as the means by which broken and dislocated things are made whole and restored to peace. Because the piece consists of Colossians 1:15–20, its meaning is directly grounded in that single passage: creation, the church, resurrection, and reconciliation all depend upon the preeminence and work of Christ.”
Related Scripture
- Colossians 1:15-20 The spoken text directly presents Christ’s supremacy in creation and his reconciling work.