A Flowing Fountain EP114

From the transcript...

I want to talk to you about Colossians, because in Ephesians 1 it says… when you read that, what did you say?

Verses 15–16—that’s where Ephesians 1 comes to mind. Yeah, verse 15–16. 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.

Right there.

Because he keeps bringing us back to that original purpose in Ephesians 1—chosen in Him before the foundation of the world. It all started there. And now we see that fullness revealed in Christ the Creator.

So He’s coming into His own creation—a creation He already has a relationship with. The apostolic vision of Jesus Christ as Creator is that He continues to uphold all things and give life to all. That’s who He is. That’s what He is.

And that’s the One who becomes a man.

Let that settle for a moment. The One who holds all things together steps into the very world He is holding. The Life of all life breathes our air.

I’ll stay in Colossians, but let me read this. What version are you using?

Same idea—I’m going to read from the Mirror Translation.

Colossians 1:15:

“In Him, the image and likeness of God is made visible in human form in order that everyone may recognize their true origin in Him. He is the firstborn of every creature.”

Come on.

There’s something deeply grounding here. Paul isn’t starting with sin—he’s starting with origin. Not with separation, but with source. Christ doesn’t arrive to begin something new in the sense of God reacting—He reveals what has always been true in the heart of God.

It echoes like a quiet refrain from Ephesians: before the foundation… in Him.

And it reminds me of those opening lines in John’s Gospel—“In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.” The life we’re awakening to isn’t foreign to us. It’s not imported from the outside. It’s the very life we’ve always had our being in, now unveiled in Christ.

So when we look at Jesus, we’re not just seeing God—we’re seeing ourselves as we were always meant to be, held in Him from the beginning.