He
Has Rescued Us From
The Dominion Of
Darkness
We always thank God, the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of
your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people— the
faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about
which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel 6 that has come
to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the
whole world—just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and
truly understood God’s grace. You learned it from Epaphras,
our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, and
who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
For this reason, since
the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually
ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and
understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the
Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in
the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his
glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving
joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance
of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the
dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in
whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians
1: 3-14
Can you explain the
wonder of Jesus’s sacrificial death for us?
It can be hard to explain to someone who has no hope and no family how
someone he has never met loves him enough to die on a cross for his sins.
Can you imagine yourself
in a completely new body, and imagine yourself totally free of your worn-out
body and crippling limitations?
Praise God for the
life-changing, hope-giving, gospel available to you, and everyone else. The
gospel of Jesus Christ does that for us offers new life for all who trust Him.
Jesus
offers new life.
Our
Daily Bread – July 31, 2017