For this reason also, since the day we heard of it,
we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the
knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you
will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects,
Insights: In verses one through eight, Paul
has given his address to the church of Colossae and also thanked God for their
salvation. It is this eternal work of
new life Paul is referencing in verse nine when he writes, “For this reason
also,…” In other words, because these recipients
of his letter are born again, Paul is now praying verse nine will take place in
their lives. This ninth verse is the
springboard for the second part of today’s thoughts and the remaining thoughts
this week. In verse nine Paul is praying
for these born again believers to be filled with the knowledge of God’s will
and have true spiritual wisdom and understanding. Paul then proceeds with the two word phrase, “so
that,” indicating the truth of a byproduct of knowing God’s will. It is these five results of knowing God’s
will that we will be looking at this week.
The first is one who knows God’s will is going to live a morally
acceptable life before God. It does not
take much imagination to realize we live in a morally decadent society. Even last week this moral exactness was
displayed all over our national media with the attack on the president of Chic-fil-a
for his comments regarding biblical marriage.
Are society has the most drug addicts, the most alcoholics, the most
over-weight, the most sexually promiscuous, the most smokers and the list of
moral outrage against a holy God could go on and on. Paul’s point is if we know God because we are
born again, then we can know His will and because His Spirit lives in us, we
now have the ability to live a morally superior life. Before we came to know Jesus as our Savior we
were slaves to sin and could do no other than be a moral reprobate; but now,
because of Jesus, we can live a morally pleasing life in God. So, throughout this week, I am going to ask you
to evaluate your life. How well are you
doing at sacrificing your will to God’s and allowing Him to purge your life of
moral filth? Beloved, live morally
before a lost world!
Questions:
- Have you come to a place in your spiritual life where
if you were to die today, you know you would go to heaven?
- Is your life characterized by moral righteousness?
Prayer: Lord, You are
my only hope and salvation. You are also
the One who changes me from the inside out and molds my life to reflect the
moral rectitude You so desire for me.
Let my heart truly surrender to Your Lordship. Amen.
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