Colossians 3:12-25 - 4:1 (Part 3)
There are people that ooze compassion,
kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, forbearance, forgiveness, and/or love
in varying amounts and degrees. I just don’t
seem to be one of them. As God’s people the
Apostle Paul instructs Christians to “clothe yourselves with” (Colossians 3:17-25)
all of these virtues.
My friend and I were talking about the
idea of “pressing in” on the Holy Spirit and spending more one-on-one time with
Jesus in prayer and meditation. I admit
the difficulty in “putting to death” (v. 5) those things that are earthly in my
actions as well as clothing myself with those things that are Godly, but I fully
recognize that it is only by doing everything in the name of Jesus that allows
me to even begin to see victory in my life.
And as though by accident, I occasionally do.
When I read that I am to “take off my
old self with its practices” (v. 9) I am mindful that I did just that when I
met Jesus at His Cross, and today I am ever so-slowing inching myself into a
new set of spiritual clothes (ethically speaking). Read through the chapter and see if you
aren’t as well.
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