Tuesday, January 12, 2010

5:10 Is Your Faith and Your Love is a Witness?

Key Verse: 3We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints—Colossians 1:3, NIV

As the Apostle Paul wrote to his spiritual children at Colossae, he was excited about two things, their faith in Christ and their love for each other! Those are the two things that shows evidence of our Christianity, our belief in God and our how we treat our brothers and sisters!

Where does that faith and love come from? Verse 5 makes it plain: that this faith and love comes from our hope in the Gospel!


5 (your faith and love) come(s) from your confident hope of what God has reserved for you in heaven. You have had this expectation ever since you first heard the truth of the Good News.
This Good news is changing lives, including ours!
6 This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is bearing fruit everywhere by changing lives, just as it changed your lives from the day you first heard and understood the truth about God’s wonderful grace.
Colossians 1:5-6, NLT

Lord, I thank you that I can have Faith and Love because of the hope of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Hallelujah! Help me to walk as a faithful witness to the truth of the Gospel! In Jesus Name! Amen