Over and over again we need to hear, “Fix your thoughts on Jesus” because we so easily look elsewhere. Not a few may assume that there is some bigger and deeper reality of God that is above and beyond Jesus. They think that the idea of “God” or “spirituality” cannot be confined to just one historical person. The idea is that we can go beyond Jesus to something bigger and even better. Some may say, “I’ve now moved on to a bigger and deeper view of God”.
In the Colossian church, some seemed to think they needed other things alongside of Jesus. They thought that knowledge of angels, spirituality and religion were all necessary to live in the fullness of God. Paul responded to this by writing,
“My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians 2: 2-3). And also, “see to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ. For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness” (Colossians 2: 8-10).
In contrast to the people he is writing to, Paul has a big view of Jesus as the very fullness of God and the one who brings us into fullness. I don’t think Paul, or even God himself, would ever say to us, “you have made Jesus too big!”