New Year’s Revolution

A resolution is something you try to do for yourself; a revolution is something God does in you. Even the most "put-together" person (like Saul of Tarsus) needs a revolution. It took a blinding light and a total collapse of his old life to see the truth. Like us, the church at Colossae was being fed lies—that Jesus wasn't enough or that they needed "Jesus plus" something else. Paul provides a "shot of truth" to wake the church up: Jesus is the Creator, the Head of the Church, and the Fullness of God. We don’t just resolve to "fix things" or "run races." We resolve to fix our eyes on Jesus and run the race of faith.