Bible Verses: Colossians 3:1-15Isaiah 53:1-7Matthew 26:62-63Matthew 27:14Luke 23:9
Read MorePaul's marvellously rich expression indicates, that Christ is the source of our life. "You hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins." That same voice which brought Lazarus out of the tomb raised us to newness of life. He is now the substance of our spiritual life. It is by his life that we live; he is in us, the hope of glory, the spring of our actions, the central thought which moves every other thought. Christ is the sustenance of our life. What can the Christian feed upon...
Bible Verses: Colossians 3:4
Read MoreCovetousness is the excessive desire for wealth or possessions. It is a mania that grips people, causing them to grasp for more and more. It is a fever that drives them to crave things they don't actually need.
We see covetousness in the business man who is never satisfied. He says he will stop when he has accumulated a certain amount, but when that time comes, he is greedy for more.
We see it in the housewife whose life is one unending shopping spree. She squirrels away tons of...
Bible Verses: Ephesians 5:5Colossians 3:51 Timothy 3:31 Corinthians 5:111 Corinthians 6:10
Read More" In thy favor is life." When Adam sinned, he lost the favor of God, and thus he died. This is the worst of all deaths; for all other deaths are just the expression of God's disfavor. Ask one of the lost in hell when he died, and he will rightly tell you that it was when he lost the divine favor. When a man comes to Christ, he finds what Adam lost and what Adam doubtless regained, - the favor of God, life in the highest sense; for all the other things called life are but the expressions of...
Bible Verses: Colossians 3:4
Read MoreThe story of David and Goliath is one with which every reader of the Bible is familiar. It is full of interest. It reveals much of David's character, and throws light on the training of the boy in his shepherd life. It is suggestive also for all of us, for we all have giants to fight, and we may learn from David, how to meet them and conquer...
Bible Verses: Colossians 3:5
Read MorePaul said to The Colossians what to many must have seemed surprising: "If then you were raised together with Christ." How could these Colossian Christians have been raised with Christ? Of course, it was a spiritual rising. The people really had been spiritually dead, and they were now living a new spiritual life. Everyone who truly...
Bible Verses: Colossians 3:1-15Colossians 3:5-7Colossians 3:12-14
Read MoreYou died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God. (Colossians 3:3 NLT)
It is a tremendous thing to
live in this dispensation when the Lord, though having acquired the rights of
the universe, of the whole creation, by His Cross, is specifically concentrated
upon the treasure now, to get it out of the creation. "The kingdom of heaven (it
should be in...
Bible Verses: Colossians 3:3
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You have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Christ is your life. When He appears, then you, too, will appear with Him in glory. (Colossians 3:3,4 GW)
We are very often inclined to think that the
Life of the Lord in us needs in some way to be improved, to be added to, when
really what is required is that we should discover what we have, and,
discovering it...
Bible Verses: Colossians 3:3Colossians 3:4
Read MoreIf then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For … your life is hidden with Christ in God. § For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to...
Bible Verses: Psalms 119:25Colossians 3:1Colossians 3:3Philippians 3:20Philippians 3:21Galatians 5:17Romans 8:12Romans 8:131 Peter 2:11
Read MoreHe who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgement, but has passed from death to life. § I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.Because I live, you will live also. § I give them eternal life, and they shall...
Bible Verses: Romans 6:11John 5:24Galatians 2:19Galatians 2:20John 14:19John 10:28John 10:30Colossians 3:1Colossians 3:3
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For Reading and Meditation: Colossians 3:1-15
It is time now to focus more precisely on what Jesus meant when He said: "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth." Meekness, as Jesus is using the word here, refers to an attitude of heart and mind that is entirely free from a spirit of demandingness and accepts the will of God in its entirety. I...