Read: Jeremiah 2:31-4:18; Colossians 1:1-20; Psalm 76:1-12; Proverbs 24:21-22
God condemns his people because they are not repentant. They believed they were sinless while wearing the blood of innocent people on their clothes. They looked to Egypt to be their hope and yet God said they would leave there as slaves. They took the gods of all their captors and rejected the God who made them a people and saved them from the very ones they now held in high esteem. God cried out to them to return to him and let him restore them and take them back. God was their husband and he still loved them. God’s lovingkindness and grace knows no bounds.
Today Paul writes to the church in Colossi and encourages them with his prayer he has prayed for them. It is such a good prayer I want to personalize it for us.
“I pray that God will fill us with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. That we might live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way; bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that we might have great endurance and patience and joyfully give thanks to God who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.”
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