To Lose is Gain // Devotional 2.1 // Colossians 3:5-10
To Lose is Gain // Devotional 2.1 // Colossians 3:5-10
In this session we talked about our image in the world, the things we identify with, and interpret those things as our own values. But as believers, we are called to understand and take in values that in the world may seem as radical. Radical in a sense that to others it may seem as though you act on a different social norm.
There is tension while we trade worldly values for the values that Christ teaches. It is a struggle of continually dying to yourself and choosing again and again, to live by under the rule of our divine creator, or to define right and wrong that only benefits ourselves.
For the sake of Christ, what will you forsake?
G.S.
“Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.”
Colossians 3:5-10 ESV
Questions to reflect:
1. What strikes me in this text?
2. How do I reconcile my earthly desires and what God desires for me?
3. How do I learn to love what God desires for me?