Colossians 2:18-19
“Don’t tolerate people who try to run your life, ordering you to bow and scrape, insisting that you join their obsession with angels and that you seek out visions. They’re a lot of hot air, that’s all they are. They’re completely out of touch with the source of life, Christ, who puts us together in one piece, whose very breath and blood flow through us. He is the Head and we are the body. We can grow up healthy in God only as he nourishes us.”
“ Don’t let anyone condemn you by insisting on pious self-denial or the worship of angels, saying they have had visions about these things. Their sinful minds have made them proud, and they are not connected to Christ, the head of the body. For he holds the whole body together with its joints and ligaments, and it grows as God nourishes it.”
Each believer has a tiny, sub-atomic, place in Christ’s body. Christ the head provides protection and nourishment needed for growth into our eternal destiny. We need only work with neighboring particles to do our part. The headship is critical. Other people and things and even other believers try to put their head in Christ’s place. And don’t forget our self. This is the litmus test when confused about spiritual things. Whose head s truly on top?
Lord, it is so very easy to put my head up there. It is an insidious process and I fear it. I am weak here. Please be my strength.