Jesus Christ is the very platform that supports all that exists

The apostle Paul is here pointing to the fact that Jesus Christ is before all things. It reminds me of a passage where the Lord Jesus Christ says that "Truly I tell you, before Abraham was born, I am." and I remember that when Jesus Christ said that the Pharisees took stones to stone him because they said: when you say that you were before Abraham or before Moses, you are making yourself equal to God.

They understood the implications of what Jesus was saying, right? Before Abraham was I am and that is what the Bible talks about God when Moses asks him: what is your name? Who am I going to say sent me? and God says: tell them that I am who I am. So when Christ says: before Abraham was I am the Pharisees understood that Jesus was using code language to suggest that He is equal to the Father and that is why they said: we are going to stone you because you are making yourself equal to the Father.

So here the apostle Paul is saying that: "before all things He already was." Jesus Christ exists before all creation that is why he says that: "In the beginning was the Word." That is to say, in that cosmic beginning when God creates everything that exists, the Lord Jesus Christ is already present because He has no beginning or end, He is eternal, that is why Paul is pointing out here that Jesus Christ is before all things. And not only that, but everything that exists subsists in Him. What Paul is clarifying here is that Jesus is not only Creator but also Sustainer and that is something very important.

One of the things the Bible teaches us and I think one of the differences between Christianity and all other religions is the fact that God not only created the universe and kind of cut himself off from the universe. There is a philosophy called deism that has to suggest that God exists but that He is not involved in His creation but that He simply created everything that exists but that He is outside of all creation and that He is distant from creation, and that he is not involved in it in the day-to-day life, in the maintenance of creation, or in the processes of creation themselves.

But what the Bible suggests to us is a God who not only creates but is fully involved in His creation. He is involved in history, he is involved in human events, he is involved in life and death and in nature itself, He actively sustains everything with His Person and if God were not involved, the Bible tells us in His universe, in holding it, maintaining it, managing it, the universe would unravel like a pearl necklace that breaks and all the pearls run and roll on the floor.

So what Paul is suggesting here is not only that Jesus is the Creator but that he is also the raison d'être of the universe, he is the foundation, the very platform that supports all that exists. And it is what John also suggests in John chapter 1 when he says that: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God" that idea of the Word that is translated from the Greek word "logos" saying : in the beginning the logos existed, and the logos is a word that John borrowed from Greek philosophy, which the Greek philosophers used to indicate that unitive principle of everything that exists.

For them, since they did not have such a personal God, they as if they conceptualized the existence of a central element that unified everything that existed, that gave coherence to the world, that gave meaning, purpose to the world, and they as if they made a hypothesis that There had to be something in the universe that was like the central element, the unitive element and that they called logos, where the word logic comes from, logistics, philology and all these words that suggest systems.

So John took this word logos to suggest that this is the role that Jesus Christ plays, Jesus Christ is the center, the foundation. Then he could have said: In the beginning was the foundation and the foundation was with God, and the foundation was God. And that foundation that was the Word became flesh and came to dwell in our midst. Jesus Christ, the foundation of creation, the one for which he exists and which gives meaning to all that exists, became flesh and came to dwell among us.

What a wonderful revelation of the Person of Jesus, that that being totally wonderful and central to creation came to dwell in our midst, not only that but he lives in our hearts when we invite him to come into our life and become King and Lord. of our life, then He, the Creator and Sustainer of all that exists also gives our own life meaning, gives it coherence, gives it foundation, gives it purpose. All are the things that the Lord Jesus Christ does when we have Him as Lord and King of our own life and of our own world.

What a wonderful suggestion for us today to confess Jesus as the Sustainer and Creator of our own life and our own reality. God bless you and I hope this will inspire your life as it is for mine as well.