And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing
words. For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit,
joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. –
Colossians 2.4-5
If
there ever was an appropriate time for this verse it is now. ‘I am absent from
you, but I don’t want you to be the trickery of false teachers, but I am with
you spirit and joy as I watch you be steadfast.’
That
sure suits us now as so many of us are isolated from each other. We can’t meet
for church meetings, we can’t even really visit each other. We can barely have
any contact. Everything is done online and through Facebook and Zoom and Teams.
That’s fine, but it not being there.
Paul
says it perfectly. There are a lot of people I can’t be with in the flesh now.
It breaks my heart that I can’t see them. I long to see them.
With
Paul’s words of encouragement, we can be assured that even is are not
physically present we can be present in Spirit.
Now
that’s pretty easy to say, the doing is much harder. With Facebook, and
WhatsApp, and Zoom and such we have no excuse to not be there in Spirit. A chat
or a video call is just a click away. Being there in Spirit is not just a trite
phrase that sounds spiritual. It means our hearts and souls and minds are still
knit together in love even while we are apart.
Yes,
we may be apart for a while – but we need not be apart.
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