Today's Daily Lesson comes from Colossians chapter 3 verses 5 through 10:
5 Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry). 6On account of these the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient. 7These are the ways you also once followed, when you were living that life. 8But now you must get rid of all such things—anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive language from your mouth.9Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices 10and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator.
Here's the worst thing that's ever been uttered out here underneath the West Texas sun: "Well, sorry; that's just the way I am -- take me or leave me."
God wants to take us somewhere alright. But it means we have to leave off of where and often who we are. That means if we aren't changing, growing, maturing, and being purified then something is wrong. If we still have all the same old habits and hang ups then we're just stuck -- an old stick in the mud.
Let me get real specific; if we're still angry as a hornet about "those people", forwarding fake news, and talking ugly at the barber shop or beauty salon or the $7.25 a latte coffee bar then we've still got a lot of growing up to do.
Let's do it.
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