Held Together

Date: Thursday, October 29, 2026

Readings: Colossians 1 | Psalm 102:1-14

Colossians 1 contains one of the most majestic sentences in the New Testament: Christ “is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation… He is before all things, and in him all things hold together” (1:15-17). Paul writes to a young church tempted to treat Jesus as one spiritual option among many. His answer is breathtaking: Jesus is not a supplement to reality; He is the One in whom reality is knit together, Creator and Reconciler, Author and Actor, making peace through the cross (1:20).

Georges Lemaître would have loved this passage. A Belgian Catholic priest and physicist, he proposed in the late 1920s and early 1930s that the universe began from a tiny “primeval atom” and has been expanding ever since, an idea later nicknamed the Big Bang. Remarkably, he refused to let faith and physics be mixed up. When Pope Pius XII suggested in 1951 that cosmology confirmed the Genesis creation account, Lemaître reportedly worked to talk him out of it. He saw both disciplines as honest seekers of truth, and he trusted that the cosmos holds together not because we have fully explained it, but because of Who designed it.

Here is the astonishing part: the scale is dizzying, yet Paul says the cosmic Christ has been made intimate. “The mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations… is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (1:26-27). The Author of galaxies has taken up residence within ordinary people like us. Some of life’s feelings of coming apart are real, and Scripture never mocks them. But you are held, not by the strength of your grip, but by His.

Devotional Prompts:

• Where in your life (or in the world) do things feel like they are coming apart, and what does it mean that Christ holds all things together?
• Does “Christ in you” feel more like a mystery or a lived reality right now, and why?

Prayer: Lord Jesus, You are the image of the invisible God and the One in whom all things hold together. When our small worlds feel like they are unraveling, steady us with the truth that You are before all things. Dwell in us as our hope of glory today. Amen.