Bible Society: Reasons To Believe In The Power Of The Bible
‘What a couple of years it’s been. The passage that really has spoken to me during this time is Colossians 1.15–23. We had bought a house and moved a couple of weeks before the first lockdown. We ripped it apart to renovate it. We had a house that was uninhabitable, my wife was 5–6 months pregnant and no-one could help us.
‘My mum was taken into hospital with what looked like a stroke, but it was a seizure from her diabetes. She was 73. Three weeks into her time in hospital she got gangrene and had her leg amputated, and then she got Covid. She died on 3 March 2021 having been on her own for six weeks.
‘I’m a church leader, so all of this was happening while navigating church leadership and a new baby. As a church leader you get decision fatigue. People ask you what are you doing and where are you going, and you don’t know.
‘Colossians 1 is about the supremacy of Christ and about how he holds everything together. When so many things were happening – in the grief, uncertainty and chaos – that reassurance that God holds everything together, that he is in control, that his heart is to reconcile people to himself, has been for me the biggest reassurance of all.
‘It all felt totally overwhelming and it was. But this reminded me that I’m a piece in God’s puzzle. I just need to do my part by participating in what he’s doing in the world.’
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