The joys found with God are incomparably better than anything this earth has to offer.

Believing the right things about what Jesus has done for us is important and necessary. It’s just as important to believe correctly how he views us and how he responds to us when we fail. In Hebrews 4, we see the picture of Christ, our Great High Priest, who moves towards us in our weakness and leads us to the throne of grace so we can receive what we most need.

The new life Christ has given us is one where the norm of our life is the continual prayerful connection with God in which we experience regular joy as we notice his loving works and fill our minds with his loving and blessing instruction form his letter to us… the Bible.

The two ways of life are promised here. Joy and exaltation are provided by God’s promised delivery to those who will earnestly seek Him in his self-revealed information, promises and reflection on his abundant faithfulness in our life. The other option is to be stopped by God.

The sweet life of the blessed is formed by a fixed delight upon the words of God mulled over throughout our days.

Prayer is the highest but hardest spiritual tool we have been given to wield.

As Paul closes out the letter to the Colossians we see a snapshot into the people that he has invested in and have invested in him, and we look at the ways that God calls each of us to invest in the health and growth of our brothers and sisters in the body of Christ.

We share the mission of Christ by praying to our Father together for this

mission and carefully engaging each outside soul God has given us.

Paul continues in Colossians 3 to give instructions to the family and the household within God’d kingdom. Here we look at God’s call to bondservants and masters and what we can learn about how to live under authority structures that God has placed over us.

As we head towards the end of Colossians, Paul begins to give instructions on how God intends the family to function within the household of God. How should children relate to parents, and how should parents relate to children?