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Colossians 3:2-3 NIV
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
On the morning that I read this passage, throughout the day the Spirit kept asking me, what does it means to set my “mind on things above, not earthly things?” As I tried to process what it meant when I proclaimed to have died and raised to a new life in Christ and I am hidden with Christ in God, I became overwhelmed. During my evening prayer walk, I prayed the same prayer repeatedly asking God to help me learn how to set my mind on things above not earthly things and
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Colossians 3:2-3 NIV
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
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Colossians 3:12-14 NIV
Colossians 3:13
Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Jesus ended his lesson teaching his disciples how to pray by saying, “For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins (Matthew 6:14-15). There was a time in my life where I could not embrace forgiveness. I was very adamant that before I could forgive those who
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Colossians 3:12-14 NIV
Colossians 3:13
Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
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Colossians 3:12-14 NIV
Colossians 3:13
Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
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Colossians 3:12-14 NIV
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering.
What does it mean to have patience as a Christian? The KJV used the word longsuffering. Honestly, I can relate to both words because God has revealed to me this is one of the hardest virtues in my Christian journey. I did not consider myself impatient, at least most of the time. God has shown
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Colossians 3:12-14 NIV
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
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Colossians 3:12-14 NIV
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
What does gentleness imply in our lives as Christians? Gentleness is used interchangeably with the word “meekness.” As I study the life of Jesus through scriptures, I am continually learning what gentleness is not. I recall as a new Christian/disciple of Jesus Christ in my passion and joy knowing the Lord, I missed the entire concept of gentleness according to Jesus. I was quick to condemn, judge, reject, cancel/dismiss people who did not have the
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Colossians 3:12-14 NIV
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
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Colossians 3:12-14 NIV
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
Matthew 5:5, “blessed are the meek for they will inherit the earth” (NIV). Proverbs 18:12, “Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; And before honor goeth humility” (ASV). What is humility? Jesus taught us what humility looks like in the eyes of God. Philippians 2:6-8 reminded us “Though he was in the form of God, he did not regard equality with God something to be possessed by force. On the contrary, he emptied himself, in that he took
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Colossians 3:12-14 NIV
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
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Colossians 3:12-14 NIV
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
How do you clothe yourself with kindness in a world where kindness is often taken for granted or sometimes seen as weakness? Growing up I recall a few people that God had allowed to show kindness to me even though I had no blood relation to them. There is one woman in particular whom God used to teach me what it is like to be loved by a mother figure as a young child when I was desperately seeking maternal love. To my amazement, she was not
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Colossians 3:12-14 NIV
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
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Colossians 3:12-14 NIV
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
What does it look like as a follower of Jesus Christ to clothe myself with compassion? Jesus during his ministry demonstrated the definition of compassion for us to follow as he interacted with people. Jesus learned from God, his father, how essential compassion was to his ministry (Isaiah 49:15, Exodus 33:19, etc.). Throughout the Gospel, Jesus showed the difference between empathy, feeling compassionate and showing compassion which are similar
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Colossians 3:12-14 NIV
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
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Colossians 3:12-14 NIV
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
If you have been receiving the ministry’s weekly reflection, you will notice a shift for the months of June and July. As guided by God’s Holy Spirit, we will be focusing on what it means to be clothed with Jesus by putting into practice the attributes listed in Colossians 3:12 as we are striving or seeking to be like Jesus in our Christian/Discipleship journey. My prayer the past few years has been about asking God to clothe me with Jesus so that
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Colossians 3:12-14 NIV
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
