1"Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God."
Colossians 3:1
We usually use the word therefore if there is a result or a conclusion to a problem. Paul used the word therefore for us to know that even the solution to sin has been provided by God Himself sending His only Son to die on the Cross to save our sins. Mark 10:45 says, "For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
I am always amazed of how great the Father's love has for us. I still cannot comprehend that God, knowing what mess I have done in my life and what shame I have brought upon His name, will sacrifice His one and only Son just to save us.
We have been saved for something important, something special. When we try to save something, it only indicates the vitality of that thing in our lives. We don't want to lose that thing because there's a value in it, a purpose. I do believe that God saved us because we are special to Him and He has something in store for us. Christ said that we are to seat at the right hand of God, a prize I never deserved but only through God's grace I have been given. We have a purpose because we have been saved.
We have been SAVED to be CLEANSED. Paul says we should set our mind on things of the Lord because we are dead to sin, alive to God. Paul wrote in Colossians 3:2-3, 2"Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.3For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God."
In Romans 6:2 it tells us "...We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?" We have died in sin and we are ought not to live in it any longer for sin destroys the fellowship that we have in Jesus Christ.
We are SAVED to please the Lord. Colossians 3:5-7 says, "5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. 7You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived."
Jesus Christ loves the sinner but not the sin. A complex love that only the Father can give, He cannot stand sin but He loves us. So knowing that we cannot handle sin and it is our nature to sin, Jesus saved us so that we may be able to please Him by putting to death what makes Him angry. His kind of love reminds me of a healthy relationship. When you love someone you want the best for them. You will never allow anything that you know would hurt that person in any kind or form, same as the Fathers love for us. He knows sin will destroy us, will kill us but since He loves us so much He will never allow this to happen. So pleasing the Lord also gives us a healthy life in Him alone.
We are SAVED to be RENEWED. Colossians 3:9-11 says, 9"Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices,10and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him--11a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all."
We have been saved to be renewed by the Lord and He also commanded us to get rid of our old self and put on the new self that is being renewed according to God Himself whom created us. He saved us because we had a purpose in life. He renewed our inner self because we needed it badly, we need a change and it only comes from the Lord. No matter what, God will always give us the power to change and Only through Him can one person be really changed inside and out.
Every time the Lord will remind me of His grace, it always reminds me of this one line from a popular song.. " I wonder have I done my best for Jesus, while He has done so much for me."
-Have I put on the New Self, that He himself provided so that once and for all we may live the life God wants us to live
-Have I done my best for Jesus?
I am always amazed of how great the Father's love has for us. I still cannot comprehend that God, knowing what mess I have done in my life and what shame I have brought upon His name, will sacrifice His one and only Son just to save us.
We have been saved for something important, something special. When we try to save something, it only indicates the vitality of that thing in our lives. We don't want to lose that thing because there's a value in it, a purpose. I do believe that God saved us because we are special to Him and He has something in store for us. Christ said that we are to seat at the right hand of God, a prize I never deserved but only through God's grace I have been given. We have a purpose because we have been saved.
We have been SAVED to be CLEANSED. Paul says we should set our mind on things of the Lord because we are dead to sin, alive to God. Paul wrote in Colossians 3:2-3, 2"Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.3For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God."
In Romans 6:2 it tells us "...We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?" We have died in sin and we are ought not to live in it any longer for sin destroys the fellowship that we have in Jesus Christ.
We are SAVED to please the Lord. Colossians 3:5-7 says, "5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. 7You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived."
Jesus Christ loves the sinner but not the sin. A complex love that only the Father can give, He cannot stand sin but He loves us. So knowing that we cannot handle sin and it is our nature to sin, Jesus saved us so that we may be able to please Him by putting to death what makes Him angry. His kind of love reminds me of a healthy relationship. When you love someone you want the best for them. You will never allow anything that you know would hurt that person in any kind or form, same as the Fathers love for us. He knows sin will destroy us, will kill us but since He loves us so much He will never allow this to happen. So pleasing the Lord also gives us a healthy life in Him alone.
We are SAVED to be RENEWED. Colossians 3:9-11 says, 9"Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices,10and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him--11a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all."
We have been saved to be renewed by the Lord and He also commanded us to get rid of our old self and put on the new self that is being renewed according to God Himself whom created us. He saved us because we had a purpose in life. He renewed our inner self because we needed it badly, we need a change and it only comes from the Lord. No matter what, God will always give us the power to change and Only through Him can one person be really changed inside and out.
Every time the Lord will remind me of His grace, it always reminds me of this one line from a popular song.. " I wonder have I done my best for Jesus, while He has done so much for me."
-Have I put on the New Self, that He himself provided so that once and for all we may live the life God wants us to live
-Have I done my best for Jesus?
17"Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father."
Colossians 3:17
Colossians 3:17
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