These are easy choices on paper but harder to put into practice day-to-day. Each one stands or falls with the others. What are some other verses that have profoundly simple but difficult teachings?
Seek, Set, Sever, and Serve
How do we resist temptation? Colossians 3:1-17 provides plain actions that can aid in our struggles. See if you can find what we should seek, set, and sever, and how we should serve to be holy.
The Sun and the Son
God’s people are meant to be lights, designed by God, to be seen and direct people to His Son. Regarding the sun, David wrote, “There is nothing hidden from its heat” (Ps 19:6).
Alone Time or Isolation?
Being alone isn’t wrong. Nor is it unhealthy to seek rest from difficult times by getting away for a bit. However, there is a fine line between getting some alone time and separating yourself from others in an unhealthy way.
Our God is in Heaven
Wealth, power, fame, and pleasure are abstract, fleeting pursuits. They are thoughtless, emotionless, and helpless. They only have what we give to them. Nonetheless, billions set these as their life’s focus.
Do I Care What You Think?
Someone else’s poor behavior never excuses us from doing what is right.
It’s Going on the Refrigerator
When your son comes to you with a crayon drawing of the family, you don’t concern yourself with the disproportionate heads, cyclops eyes, or stick torsos. You see growth. You see love. You see your son. That’s what is going on the refrigerator.
Not the mistakes – the masterpiece.
Saved from What? How?
To be forgiven, our sins must be washed by the blood of Christ. But how? This is an abstract concept. Jesus’ blood was shed almost two thousand years ago. Since we can’t literally touch it to be cleansed, where do we see the figure for when it happens?
Then What Happened?
Who was deceived? If Adam wasn’t, then what?
God’s Opus
God has a symphony. We define the word as an intricate composition of music. I imagine diverse parts that are coordinated into a whole and fit the composer’s design. We get our word symphony from the Greek word symphonia. It is made of two words that mean “together” and “sound.” That is much like how […]