Our Real Life

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

May 20, 2025

Our Real Life

Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God. And when Christ, who is your life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share in all his glory.

Colossians 3:1-4 

Our passage for today highlights what I believe is the most significant difference between the followers of Jesus and the followers of every other religion. Basically, all the other religions are DIY: Do-It-Yourself. The Judaizers had been encouraging the church in Colossae to follow rules to establish and maintain their relationship with God. Paul taught the church that such rule keeping may look good on the outside, but “they provide no help in conquering a person’s evil desires” (Colossians 2:23).

Where other religions teach their followers how to try and make themselves fit to meet their god, Jesus brings his followers into a right relationship with God. Because the problem of sin is a spiritual problem, it requires a spiritual answer, which is beyond our human capacity. God’s solution to the problem of sin is to do for us that we cannot do for ourselves: “For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.” (Colossians 3:3). Here Paul is reemphasizing the point he made in 2:12, “For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to new life.”

My Takeaway: We have died with Christ, we are now alive in Christ, and Christ has set us free from the spiritual powers of this world. Our mission is to stay in this grace each day. Colossians 3:1-2 help us in our mission:

“Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth.” 

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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