Christmas Meditations - The Fullness of God

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.  For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities - all things have been created through Him and for Him.  He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.  He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.  For it was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross.  Colossians 1:15 - 20


Jesus is fully God, and through Him, the invisible God's likeness has been made visible.  Jesus is also "the firstborn of all creation," which describes His rank, not His origin, as someone mistakenly teach.  Jesus is the ranking Heir, the One who has all the rights of His royal inheritance to rule over all His creation.  He is the "King of kings and Lord of lords (I Timothy 6:15).  


Consider this: 


"The expanse of creation is staggering.  A hollow ball the size of our sun would hold about one million planets the size of the earth.  The brightest star in our sky, Sirius Canis Major, is twice as big as our sun.  Arcturus is more than twenty-three times larger than our sun.  Betelguese, one of the stars visible in the constellation Orion, is about three hundred times larger than our sun."


"If you could count the stars as you traveled across the Milky Way (a journey of about 100,000 years at light speed), you would find about one hundred billion stars, and there are billions more galaxies out there.  The size of the universe is incomprehensible. 

The baby in Bethlehen made all of it.  He created everything."

~quotes taken from God's Gift of Christmas by John MacArthur