Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
12. Giving thanks. Again he returns to thanksgiving, that he may take this opportunity of enumerating the blessings which had been conferred upon them through Christ, and thus he enters upon a full delineation of Christ. For this was the only remedy for fortifying the Colossians against all the snares, by which the false Apostles endeavored to entrap them — to understand accurately what Christ was.
We taste redemption's benefits in our hearts first, then follow those streams back to their source in Christ's work. The Father works this grace in us by His Spirit, and if we feel the comfort of it, He must have all the glory for it.
AI summary
Commenting on Colossians 1:12-29
Giving thanks unto the Father,.... To God the Father, as the Vulgate Latin and the Syriac versions read the clause; and the Complutensian edition, and some copies, "God and the Father"; who is both the Father of Christ by nature, and of all his people by adoption.