Colossians 1

Today, Father, I give thanks to you that you have qualified me to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.  You have delivered me from the domain of darkness and transferred me to the kingdom of your beloved son, my Lord, Jesus Christ. In him I have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

My Lord Jesus is the Christ, your Messiah, sent to save all those who are yours. He is the image of you, Father, the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.  By him all things were created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. All things were created through him and for him.  He is before all things and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the first born from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.  For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell.