This chapter should impress the reader to the point of awe at the enormity of the plan that made it possible for the Son of God, the One Who created all things (Col 1:16), to live in us.
This or That?
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.
Unhypocritical Love
It is incontrovertible. We cannot love if we are hypocritical. While the imitation might make a convincing facsimile, there will always be a chink in the facade.
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.
Build Where You Are
The city had been nearly a century and a half without walls. Modern estimates are that under Nehemiah’s leadership there were about two and a half miles of wall constructed or repaired. Despite how long-standing the problem was, or how gigantic the task seemed, Israel succeeded in rebuilding their stone defense in 52 days.
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.