Scripture: Colossians 1:27-29
To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, hospital which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. ²⁸ It is he whom we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ. ²⁹ For this I toil and struggle with all the energy that he powerfully inspires within me.

Thought for the Day: Colossians (not written by Paul directly) is a letter about the cosmic Paul—the Paul who had a metaphysical* understanding of life, the Paul who understood that like Jesus, we all have the Christ within, waiting to burst forth, waiting for us to come to a place of spiritual maturity. It’s a beautiful letter that reaffirms the idea that we are more than these physical shells, more than this material existence, with its annoyances and petty squabbles. Indeed, we are truly spiritual beings, maturing over time as we discover the truth about what lies within.

The more we pray and meditate to connect with God, the more spiritually mature we become. And spiritual maturity leads us down incredible new paths of adventure and insight.

Prayer: Holy God of Revelation, help me see the incredible loving power of the Christ within all of creation. Amen.

*metaphysics |?met??fiziks|

pluralnoun [ usu. treated as sing. ]

the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space.

• abstract theory or talk with no basis in reality: his concept of society as an organic entity is, for market liberals, simply metaphysics.

Metaphysics has two main strands: that which holds that what exists lies beyond experience (as argued by Plato), and that which holds that objects of experience constitute the only reality (as argued by Kant, the logical positivists, and Hume). Metaphysics has also concerned itself with a discussion of whether what exists is made of one substance or many, and whether what exists is inevitable or driven by chance.