The Daily Fountain Devotional of the Church Of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) 11 October 2025 – Christ, The Ultimate Reality
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TOPIC – Christ, The Ultimate Reality
READ: Colossians 2:8-23 (NKJV)
- Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
- For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;
- and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
- In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
- buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with [Him] through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
- And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
- having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
- Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
- So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,
- which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.
- Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in [false] humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
- and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase [that is] from God.
- Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as [though] living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations —
- “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,”
- which all concern things which perish with the using — according to the commandments and doctrines of men?
- These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, [false] humility, and neglect of the body, [but are] of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
THE MESSAGE:
The Colossian Christians needed to be warned by God in this letter, especially in regard to philosophical and religious appearances and perceptions. In verses 16 and 17 of this chapter, Christians are warned not to let anyone judge them by physical standards of food or religious festivals and celebrations. They were not to be manipulated by outward religious appearances or high-sounding but empty philosophical wisdom of men. All these are not the reality but a shadow. The real substance of spirituality is found in Christ alone, not in some religiosity that does not have any real substance, or high-sounding philosophies, or any other manifestations and human achievements.
The only hope for a sound spirituality recognized by God is for one to get connected and reconnected with the “head”, Christ Jesus. No amount of religiosity, no quantity of human efforts can make a person right before God. Only connection with Christ – a total submission to the Lordship of Jesus – can achieve that. Jesus Himself said “….apart from me you can do nothing” (John 15:5). Real life, real wisdom, real relationships, and real spirituality can only be found in Christ.
PRAYER: Lord, thank You for making me understand that real life and real wisdom can only be found in You. I acknowledge You as my Lord and my reality. Amen.
