The Tuesday after Quasi modo geniti Sunday
Posted on April 14, 2026 by under
Scripture: Colossians 2:9-15 (NKJV)
2:9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
Devotion
“In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.”
Paul does not offer sentiment. He makes a confession. The fullness of God is not scattered across philosophies or hidden in mystical ladders of ascent. It dwells bodily in Jesus Christ. And through faith you are complete in Him.
The old Adam protests. He wants something to add. A spiritual achievement. A hidden insight. A contribution. Paul buries that instinct. You were dead in trespasses. Dead men do not assist in their resurrection. God forgives you in Christ. He blotted out the bond written in ordinances. He nailed it to the cross. The Law’s accusation, with all its holy demands, was fastened to Christ’s flesh. The handwriting that condemned you has been erased in His blood.
Baptism joins you to that death and that triumph. “Buried with him… raised through faith.” Christ disarmed principalities and powers. The devil’s loudest weapon is accusation. But when the debt is paid, his voice collapses.
The Resurrection we celebrate is not distant history. It is your standing before God: complete, forgiven, alive. Stand there. Not in yourself. In Him.
Collect: Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we who have celebrated the solemnities of the Lord’s Resurrection, may, by the help of Thy grace, bring forth the fruits thereof in our life and conversation; through the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
