Tuesday after Quasi modo geniti
Posted on April 26, 2022 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
How hard is it to fathom that the infinite, eternal God would take on frail human flesh and live as one of us? He did this not out of boredom, or as a game, or a matter of curiosity, but because we needed Him to do it. When we look at what God demands of us in the Law, we know how far short of it we really fall. The Law tells us we must, and we grumble and complain, and then do not follow it. The Law says we must not, and those are the things we want to do most, because they are “fun,” or because others would think less of us if we did not.
But Christ took on our flesh to fulfill the Law for us, taking upon Himself the death sentence that we had all earned. In doing so, and in calling us to faith in Him, He has done two things: He has taken away the sting and threat of death and eternal damnation, and He has freed us to live our lives in thankfulness and gratitude to Him. When we look to the cross, we see the magnitude of His sacrifice, and we rejoice to live anew in Him.
Prayer: 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.
