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I was also reading, one of my favorite chapters in the Bible.

Colossians 3:16
”Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.”

I’ve read this verse loads of times, cuz it’s part of my favorite passage, but for some reason this morning, this one thought just stuck out to me.
      we are all, always teaching someone whether with our lives, our words, our actions…in someway we are always teaching…and vice verse…we are always being taught. and the majority of time, we don’t even realize it.

and i am one, who at times…can be quite stubborn and get an attitude of "’this person can’t tell me what to do…they dont have authority over me…’ but I was reminded that…

“i am not better than anyone.” and that goes for all of us. we are all wretched sinners. gloriously saved and made alive by the grace and mercy and love of God. We can learn from all people, and we are always teaching something. Good and bad.

but the bible tells us to teach one another, as we are dwelling in the word of Christ and to admonish (or to counsel, or reprove) one another in the same way…in wisdom, in songs…all with a GRATEFUL HEART.
 

my attitude, is the wrong attitude a lot of the time. I need to be willing to learn and to take counsel from people. I do believe though, there needs to be respect in it though, you can’t just go up to anyone and tell them they are wrong or teach them a certain thing…we are also called to respect and love one another…

it says that the word of Christ needs to be in us as we teach and admonish…in all wisdom…

 

So i was just reminded today to be more open and to check my attitude.

Mirrors

 

so i was reading my bible this morning, and just felt like sharing a few thoughts that ran thru my head and a couple verses.

James 1:22-25
”But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perserveres, being no hearer, who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.”

I’ve heard it said that the Word of God (the bible) acts as our mirror. For our Spiritual life, and our charachter our mirror is God’s Word. Yet as this verse says, how often do we read the Word, walk away, and completely forget what we read, or what Christ has said about us and our identity….

I know that I do this, all to often. i did it this morning as we were reading it…I forgot who I was in Christ, even as I was reading and being challenged by this passage. we need to apply the words of God to who we are, we need to compare our charachter to what Christ says about who we are in Him, our new life. We need to not just walk away from our mirror forgetting who we are. but walk away remembering who we are, and perservereing in that.

We need to not just hear who we are, but act and live in who we are!

You Are God.

 

i love the song Forever Reign. and my favorite line from the song is:

“You are God. You are God. of all else I’m letting go.”

As i was praying and thinking this morning, I just started questioning, do we really live that out?! Do we really believe that God is God, and that He will BE or IS God in our lives. and do we really let everything that hinders us go. Do we let all the things go that we like to have control of…

do we let our own will’s go, our own desires, our own wants, our worries, our fears…etc. the list could go on.

 

Do we truly believe and live that God is God, and of all else, we let go?!