Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“But in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds.”
NL Daily Devotion for Saturday, March 9, 2024
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
Worlds. Plural. I love this so much. Millennia before Star Trek put the idea of multiple universes into my impressionable mind, Paul names Jesus the word through which God created all that is, comprising, it would seem, more than one world. I’m sure there are plenty of ways to interpret this that don’t literally point to alternative universes, something I imagine Paul would have zero concept of. We could look at it as simply as this: each of us moves in multiple “worlds”—that of our family, our social obligations, our employment; or the visible world and the world of spirit and thought and emotion; or the temporal world and the eternal world. However you want to think about it, this pluralization of “world” that Paul invokes is an invitation to expand our curiosity about creation and know that God in Christ Jesus is the source and is over, around, and through all that is, whether we understand it or not.
What does it mean to me to imagine God creating multiple worlds?