The Beginning

         Reunions are fun times.  You get to see everyone from the family in one group setting and then to get caught up, so to speak, about all of the events of the previous year.  When i lived in Indiana, we had a reunion every year.  Certain relatives were always making sure that we would be able to get together.  It used to be outside, but now, when it is held, it is inside.  We had one man who had a window shad all rolled up and he would bring it every year.  On that shade was the genealogy of the family.  You could look at the shade and see your name and then the names of your children printed underneath your name.  The creator of this window shade had kept it going for years and was very careful in putting the names in the right place. In essence, you could go back several hundred years and find out the names of the husband and wife that started it all.  Colossians 1:12-13 says, " Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:"   
       We often come up with the question, "Who started it all?"  In this case, we are thinking of going back a lot more than a hundred years but to the beginning of things even before Adam and Eve.  Colossians 1:12-23 gives us a lot of information as to Who started it all and why it was created in the first place.  It is the "why" and "how" of creation.  The above verse gives us the beginning of this event.  It was all traced back to His "dear Son."   Colossians chapter one is our "window shade" showing us just how creation took place.  We sometimes ask the question, "Why am I here?"  Well, we can find out the answer in this passage of Scripture.  Just look at every pronoun in this passage and notice that it all refers back to "His dear Son."  We are not coincidences in the history of life.  We just didn't pop up out of a primitive pool of chemicals.  When we keep going back far enough, we find out the reason for all of us to be here.  What a joy it is to know that we have purpose in life and that God's plan just doesn't stop with our short period of life but goes on throughout all eternity.  In that eternity, all people will live forever, but the destination of your abode will be determined with the decision you make in this life.  To reject this wonderful spiritual life is the course of the fool.  On the flip side, we have the wonderful truth of John 3:16.  "believe in Him and never perish."  Now that's something to praise God about.  So, praise God today for His wonderful and complex creation as we read it in His letter to us.