Today, I am reading and commenting on Colossians 1-4.
Paul begins by telling us that we were enemies of God because of our evil behavior, but that He has reconciled us to Himself through Christ’s death. He goes on to explain how we have been brought to fullness in Christ. While we were dead in our sins God made us alive. Therefore we should kill all sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed (Paul notes that greed is a form of idolatry. It is the worship of money). These are obvious sins to most people, but Paul says that we need to go beyond that. We need to remove from our lives anger, rage, and filthy language. Which are things we often justify to ourselves. We must remove them and put on the things with which God wishes to clothe us: compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. And this is where we see why we must take off, must remove from our lives, anger, rage, and filthy language, along with the more obvious things of which Paul tells us to rid ourselves. Those other things are not compatible with the things which Paul says we should put on. In this new being to which God calls us there is no room for dividing ourselves into groups. So, let us serve the Lord and love one another. Paul gives some other instructions about how this all fits together before telling us how a key method to accomplishing this. He tells us to devote ourselves to prayer.
Let us strive to live the types of lives which Paul tells us to live. While Paul ends with prayer, we should start with prayer. That prayer divides into three parts. Pray for others. Pray that we can live lives of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, and love. Pray that we can remove anger, rage, malice, slander, filthy language, immorality, lust, evil desires, and greed from our lives.
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