Before All Things

Col 1:17  And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 

Jesus as God, has an eternal existence, he created all things and upholds all things. When he came in the form of a baby, he was born six months after Mary's cousin Elizabeth's son, John the Baptist. When older, John knew that he was born before baby Jesus, but he also knew as a prophet of God that in this baby was the eternal God, Jesus the Son of God.

John 1:15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

John 1:16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 

The law is holy, but no one was able to keep all the law; no one but Jesus. The penalty for law breaking; sin, is death and separation from God.

Heb 9:27  And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 

Heb 9:28  So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. 

Jesus died for our sins as our substitute. He has risen from the grave and through trust in him we become children of God. We must accept his salvation before we die. Do you hear him calling you now?