How Great Is Our God - Monday, 04/13/2026

Song: "How Great Is Our God" (Chris Tomlin) [Click here to listen to the song.]

Scripture: Colossians 1:15-20

"Name above all names, worthy of all praise — my heart will sing, how great is our God."

The Monday after Easter can feel like a spiritual valley after a mountaintop. The celebration has quieted, the lilies are wilting, and ordinary life presses back in. It is precisely on days like this that we need to anchor ourselves again to the truth of who Christ is — not just what was accomplished on Sunday, but who the Risen One is every day.

Colossians 1 is one of the most majestic declarations about Jesus in all of Scripture. Paul writes that Christ is "the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation" — that all things were created through Christ and for Christ, and that in all things the Risen One has the supremacy. This is not a small Savior. This is the Lord of the cosmos.

We live in a culture that constantly offers us smaller, more manageable saviors — comfort, success, security, approval. These things are not evil in themselves, but when we place them at the center of our lives, we are left with a shrunken hope. Paul's vision in Colossians is a corrective: nothing in heaven or on earth compares to Christ, and in Christ, all things hold together.

That phrase — "in Christ all things hold together" — is a quiet pastoral comfort buried inside a grand theological statement. Your life, with all its fraying edges and unresolved tensions, is held by the same Christ who holds the universe. The Risen One is not merely Lord of the church or Lord of Sunday morning. Christ is Lord of your Monday, too.

Let this week be lived under the lordship of a great God. Not a God we manage, but a God who reigns — and who reigns for us, over us, and through us.

Reflection Question: In what area of your life are you most tempted to rely on a "smaller savior" rather than trusting Christ's lordship?

Action Step: Write down one situation this week where you have been trying to be in control. Pray specifically over that situation, consciously releasing it to the Lord of all things.

Prayer: Great God, You are Lord of all — including the parts of our lives we hold most tightly. Today we release our grip and trust Your sovereignty. Let Your greatness be not just a song we sing, but a truth we live. Amen.