Heirs. Colossians 1:9-20

We are heirs because of the work that Jesus did through his death and resurrection. We are now qualified to share in the inheritance of the vast kingdom of God, not because we have done enough good things or because we have impressed the right people. We are qualified because the Father has chosen to qualify us. He can justly do so, even to sinners who were once his enemy, because Jesus has made it just to do so. Because Jesus died, paying for the sins of men, men may now draw near to God. We can even become children of this great God to the praise and glory of Jesus Christ, the one and only.

Colossians 1:9-20
9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. 10And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully 12giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you[d] to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. 13For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14in whom we have redemption,[e] the forgiveness of sins.

15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. 17He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18And 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. 19For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20and 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.

Questions
1. What do you find most comforting in the passage?
2. What do you find most challenging?
3. What will stick with you?