Track 4: Wonder and Belonging

Lily Cathcart November 26, 2025 1 1

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Colossians 1: 9-20 (NIV)

9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you[a] to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Now we come to the middle of our ‘concept album’ for this week and it's time for Jesus to embrace another new genre: classical. I like to envision silence falling as Jesus sits and, in the glow of the firelight, focuses on his guitar; teasing from it an intricate tune.

I see in my mind’s eye that no-one at that first gathering would know the words which would later be read alongside the music, because of course Colossians 1 hadn’t been written yet. But Jesus has God’s heart and that heart channels words from another time into the feelings of his music.

The tune would fill his listeners with a feeling of belonging and safety, then of awe and of the endless heavens. I like to imagine that some of them would look at Jesus a little differently after they heard that tune, half knowing things they shouldn’t know yet. 

The middle, the heart, of the album, a reflection of God’s heart in Jesus, a vision of the future and the present. A mystery and yet a revelation.

Prayer:

Dear God who is beyond time

Thank you that you are not limited to our views

Help us to open our minds to new mysteries and wonder

Guide us towards the future which will bring your light into the world

Amen