One song that I enjoy is an old one, made famous by Sammy Davis Jr. It’s called “I’ve gotta be me.” You can probably imagine what the song is about. Basically, it is “I don’t care who you are, I don’t care what you think of me, I don’t care if I am right or wrong, I am great and I am going to do whatever in the word I please.” In other words, it’s me, myself and I and I am just fine with that.
I bring this up because Pastor Ken told shared with us on Sunday that in Colossians 1 Paul tells the church there “That’s our God!” And what a God He is! Verses 15 through 20 tells us about His supremacy. He is the visible image of God, He existed before anything was created; He made the things we can and can’t see; through Him everything was created, He holds everything together and the most supreme above anything else. What a resume!
However, the most amazing thing about Christ is not who He is, but the fact that verse 20 tells us that He took notice of us. We were at war with him! (the text says we were His enemies) separated from Him and has reconciled us to Him. We were lost and without any hope! And yet, He took notice of us.
I am reminded of the passage found in Romans 1:17 though Romans 3:23. I believe this is one of the darkest passages of Scriptures because it tells us how lost we are. Through those verses, Paul painstakingly and meticulously details the scope of our lostness. No matter who you are, Jew or Gentile we are lost. Nobody is righteous, no one seeks God, our throats are open graves, our feet are swift to shed blood and we do not know peace. He closes this section by saying “For have ALL sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). We are who we are.
And yet, as Colossians 1 tells us, the most supreme being took notice of our condition. He created us and provided humanity with the Garden of Eden. And when we fell, one verse after (the fall is in Genesis 3:14 and in verse 15 God already makes a promise), He immediately becomes our restorer, our redeemer, our savior, the one who can repair and redeem any of the broken relationships in our lives. Most importantly, He can repair and restore the broken relationship between us and Him.
He didn’t have to, He didn’t need to, but because of His love, because of His compassion, because of His grace, He rescued us and going back to Colossians, He made us holy and blameless.
In the end, He did it because (just as the song says) He’s gotta be Him. That’s our God. Let’s live every minute of our lives with that in mind.
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