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At the end of Colossians, Paul shows his genuine love and affection for a number of people he held dear. He also reinforced the lives and behaviors of the genuine Christ followers that he named. These are the folks that meant a great deal to him and who had been significantly engaged in the work to build the Kingdom, and follow the King. Would our names have been on this list?

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Sometimes the rules of Scripture make us get our backs up a bit. We like to do things our own way, modifying rules and routes to our own desires. The problem is, of course, that this is how we get disqualified! I want the prize.

Let’s look at a few more of the guidelines in the Word that sometimes get folks in a tizzy.

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We should all be so excited about adoption that we can hardly stand it! Let’s consider it for a bit. That we would be adopted by God and sustained with all we need so that we can truly thrive in this life. What a crazy, beautiful thing!

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I see so many people pursuing the ideal of “living my best life now” but so many have no idea what this is or what they are missing on by not having this right. Real living is freedom, after all.

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The Word never changes. The One revealed within its pages is eternal, consistent, fully complete and infinitely discoverable to us, the created ones. We cannot know all there is to know of our universe, our solar system, our world, our country, our community, our own home or even our own self…

And yet, God, in the perfect expression of pure love, chooses us.

Our God deigns to acknowledge us, to notice us, to know us.

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We work and we strain toward many things. The word contend is used in the Bible to depict how we work to live in this world. It is defined more concisely as, “to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties: struggle.”

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The Bible outlines in detail how Christians should behave, and how we should interact with the lost and each other.

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The Colossians are called to not only refine and cleanse their understanding of the person of Jesus, but to put the reality of their salvation to work in the way they interacted with others. The practical work of the Gospel is the work of the Church, then and now. Display God and bring him glory through the work of the kingdom and the activities of his bride, the Church.

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Hebrews begins with foundational statements about the person, power and priority of Jesus Christ. The end of the letter affirms the same. The body the letter shows the transition from the old but meaningful religious practices of the Jews’ past to the new and evolved means of convening with God and in the expression of religion. Jesus changed everything, and yet he changed nothing. This message of both disruption and comfort was what was communicated at this time to the followers of God, who recognized and accepted Jesus as the Messiah.

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Rightly ordered lives are challenging to maintain, but perhaps even more difficult for us to conceive. We often live in such a misaligned world, among such misaligned people, within our own misaligned hearts, that we lose sight of the things that give us a right understanding of our own place and progress.

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