SCRIPTURE
Colossians 1: 11-20
“For
in Him all things in heaven and on earth were created”
11
May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power,
and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, while joyfully 12
giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of
the saints in the light. 13 He has rescued us from the power of
darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. 15 He is the
image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; 16 for in
him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and
invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers-- all things have
been created through him and for him. 17 He himself is before all
things, and in him all things hold together. 18 He is the head of the
body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he
might come to have first place in everything. 19 For in him all the
fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him God was
pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by
making peace through the blood of his cross.