Don’t Let Your Feelings
Get Out Of Control
You
have been raised up with Christ. So think about things that are in heaven. That
is where Christ is. He is sitting at God's right hand. Think about things that
are in heaven. Don't think about things that are on earth.
You died. Now your
life is hidden with Christ in God. Christ is your life. When he appears again,
you also will appear with him in heaven's glory.
So put to death
anything that belongs to your earthly nature. Get rid of your sexual sins and unclean
acts. Don't let your feelings get out of control. Remove from your life all
evil longings. Stop always wanting more and more. You
might as well be worshiping statues of gods. God's anger is going to come
because of those things. That's
the way you lived at one time in your life.
But now here are the
kinds of things you must get rid of. You must put away anger, rage, hate and
lies. Let no dirty words come out of your mouths. Don't lie to each other.
You have gotten rid
of your old way of life and its habits. You have started living a new life. It
is being made new so that what you know has the Creator's likeness.
Here there is no
Greek or Jew. There is no difference between those who are circumcised and
those who are not. There is no rude outsider, or even a Scythian. There is no
slave or free person. But Christ is everything. And he is in everything.
Colossians
3:1-11
The value of a leader
is directly proportional to that leader’s values. Think about what the world
would be like without Jesus coming to save us from our sins. We can live by His
values. We can live by the Bible. Do we?
We are called to
build our values around what will last forever. Our effectiveness is directly
proportional to what our values as believers are.
Hold
tightly to what is eternal, but loosely to what is temporal.
Our Daily Bread –