Re:Verse passage – Colossians 1:20-23 (day four)
Alienated and hostile in mind…engaged in evil deeds…our lives were in confusion and rebellion against God. Our passage says that God initiated reconciliation and Jesus Christ enabled it through His obedience and death on the cross. Through Christ’s blood, the chaos and sin of our lives was reconciled to God. And to what end? Verse 22 says, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach. When we walk, reconciled before God, we bring glory to Him. Our lives proclaim the Gospel along with all the creation.
As a believer, our lives should proclaim the Gospel just as God has proclaimed. Do our lives reveal God’s Gospel or do we present a strange gospel that will not lead anyone to Christ? It is easy to get slightly off the rails in our lives and then as we persevere in our confusion, we get further and further away from the true Gospel. Take stock of the focus of your life to make sure some repentance is not in order!
