THE leading thought in Colossians is Christ in God, the Father’s estimate of the Son. We should never have had the epistle to the Colossians if there had not been failure in their estimate of the person of Christ. The only answer of God to failure is something higher than man had before seen. He brings in something fresher and fuller when man had spoiled what He had made before. The glory in this epistle is far wider than in that to the Ephesians. There it is the Church of Christ. Wherever it is a question of us, it must be something lower than the person of Christ: the people at Colosse were in a lower state than those at Ephesus doubtless. What gives the Colossian epistle such preciousness is that the personal relationship of the Father and Son is taken up.