Connected in The Word 2-16-26
TODAY’S BIBLE READING COMES AT THE END OF THE DEVOTION!
If you’ve been reading these devotions for the last several days then you know that our theme for weekend worship services during Lent, “Whatever You Do” will build upon Colossians 3:17. Paul’s words in this verse are great, but they become even greater when we read them in context with the verses that come before it.
Doing “everything in the name of the Lord Jesus” is always done in faith and is a privilege and a gift given to us by God. Since we’ve been clothed with Christ in our Baptism (Gal. 3:27), we can be sure that Christ is going to want to be Christ in us and through us as we interact with others in the world. What does it look like to live like a person who has been rescued from the eternal fires of hell, and then clothed with the righteousness of Christ purely as a gift from God? It looks like Colossians 3:12-17. I’ve included it below for your convenience!
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Colossians 3:12-17
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