by lighthouse | May 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Colossians 3:16 “Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.” It is impossible for a Christian to live and not show gratitude to God for the blessings He has given each of us. As we live, as we talk to one another, as we go to sleep and as we wake up, how can we do anything other than be appreciative for all we are blessed to enjoy, the greatest of all being His great love for us, His adopted children.
by lighthouse | May 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Colossians 3:15 “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.” Every Christian desires a mind devoted to honoring their Savior. That honor demands and experiences a peace which can only come from a close relationship with our Father. Peace is gained when total trust is the relationship between our God and each of us. When we give our heart to God we can only then experience the peace which passes all understanding and makes each of us become as relaxed as relaxed gets. Have a great weekend.
by lighthouse | May 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
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.” This lesson is easy to type and easy to read but very difficult for any of us to follow. We all like to consider ourselves more righteous than the other guy, but when the truth is spoken, none of us would spend eternity in Heaven except for Jesus as our perfect advocate and making forgiveness happen. We do well when we follow the example of our Great Teacher as expressed in the second of the two sentences above.
by lighthouse | May 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Colossians 3:12 “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved cloth yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” Clothes are very important to many fashion minded people and because of that clothing stores abound and designer names carry weight to the fashion minded. However, who we are is identified by our wardrobe displaying our inner self. This passage certainly suggests every Christian’s wardrobe. The difference between our closet wardrobe and our inner self wardrobe is huge. One displays something purchased while the other displays our heart. The heart display is far more important than the closet display. Let’s all wear the clothes of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
by lighthouse | May 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Colossians 3:2 “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.” God expects us to enjoy our life on this earth and live a life dedicated to Him as we use our talents serving Him and our fellow man. But, our minds are always looking forward to a glorious future living with Him in Heaven. If we live only for earthly pleasure and gain, we will live a very disappointing life. We will leave this earth saying the well known words—is that all there is? If we live thanking our God for all our blessings we will leave this earth saying the well known words—praise be to God, Heaven is my home.
by lighthouse | May 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Colossians 2:8 “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.” The world is full of philosophies which might or might not include correct man’s thinking and some moral thoughts. Man is easily fooled into thinking, especially in America, where we highly value freedom of life which includes freedom of thought. As Christians we have to evaluate all philosophy as to whether it is God thinking or simply man thinking. Man thinking might have some value but certainly not the absolute truth God wants us to make our own.
