HI BOSS!

[I am trying this again-it didn't seem to want to work a while ago]. We call Jesus "Lord", and rightly so, because he is. As Scripture says in so many places and in so many words, although there are many lords, for us there is only one Lord, the Lord Jesus. (1 Corinthians 8:5-6, paraphrased).

We call him "Lord", but why don't we do as he says? Jesus issues sober and strong warnings about a merely verbal profession in Matthew 7:21 and Luke 6:46. We acknowledge this, and yet often go about doing what we want to do--individually as Christians and corporately as a church body.

Colossians 1 reminds us that Jesus is head of his body, the church. That is, he tells the church how to be and what to do. Because he is Lord, we should expect that. And yet, what do we often find? The body doing what it wants, apart from what the head demands, commands, and desires. When this happens in a physical body, we recognize the spastic or uncontrolled movements, the paralysis, and other examples of non-functioning, and we say "That's so sad. I wish they didn't have to deal with that."

Yet we look at how the church often functions, see some similar symptoms, and say, "That's just how it is" or make excuses for not doing as we're told. The Colossians had lost connection with the head (Jesus) and some had fallen into heresy; what can happen to us when WE lose connection with the head?

Jesus IS supreme--head over all principalities and powers, and over the church. That's why, later, every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord--even those who refused to do so, non-Christian or not.