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A Friend in High Places
by Max Lucado

"God has put all things under the authority of Christ."
(Eph. 1:22)

Christ is running the show. Right now. A leaf just fell from a tree in
the Alps. Christ caused it to do so. A newborn baby in India inhaled
for the first time. Jesus measured the breath. The migration of the
belugas through the oceans? Christ dictates their itinerary. He is:

"the firstborn of all creation. For by Him all things were created,
both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things
have been created through Him and for Him."
(Col. 1:15–16)

What a phenomenal list! Heavens and earth. Visible and invisible.
Thrones, dominions, rulers, and authorities. No thing, place, or person
omitted. The scale on the sea urchin. The hair on the elephant hide. The
hurricane that wrecks the coast, the rain that nourishes the desert, the
infant’s first heartbeat, the elderly person’s final breath—all
can be traced back to the hand of Christ, the firstborn of creation.

"Firstborn" in Paul’s vernacular has nothing to do with birth order.
"Firstborn" refers to order of rank. As one translation states: “He
ranks higher than everything that has been made” (v. 15). Everything?
Find an exception. Peter’s mother-in-law has a fever; Jesus rebukes
it. A tax needs to be paid; Jesus pays it by sending first a coin and
then a fisherman’s hook into the mouth of a fish. When five thousand
stomachs growl, Jesus renders a boy’s basket a bottomless buffet. Jesus
exudes authority. He bats an eyelash, and nature jumps. No one argues
when, at the end of his earthly life, the God-man declares, “All
authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth” (Matt. 28:18).

The Christ of the galaxies is the Christ of your Mondays. The Starmaker
manages your travel schedule. Relax. You have a friend in high places.
Does the child of Arnold Schwarzenegger worry about tight pickle-jar
lids? Does the son of Nike founder Phil Knight sweat a broken
shoestring? If the daughter of Bill Gates can’t turn on her computer, does she
panic?

No. Nor should you.

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From Next Door Savior
Copyright (W Publishing Group, 2003) Max Lucado