The closer I try to get to Jesus the more his holiness exposes the junk in my life. As I have been studying for my Colossians debut at Journey group the more I feel the need to repent. The portion of Colossians in Chapter 3:10-17. There are some things we are to “put on” and some things we are to “let in”. It is convicting how little of this stuff I “put on”.
Some of the parallel passages on Ephesians Galatians, and Corinthians use the phrase “put on Christ”. These character qualities are simply the same character qualities as Jesus left as an example…
1 Peter 2:21-25 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
The closer I get to Jesus the more my vision and priorities change. Lets face it, being a true Christ follower will completely wreck your life. The closer I get to Jesus the less sense the life makes. The more I think of following Jesus with a ‘reckless abandon’. I think of Peter, Andrew, James, and John who left their boats and nets and followed Jesus. I want that kind of faith.
More later…
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The steps of a righteous man are ordered b? the Lord. How then can anyone understand his own way. Proverbs (somewhere there)