Colossians 1:4-6 (NLT)
4 For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all of God’s people, 5 which come 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 New. 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.
The Good News bears fruit by changing lives just as it changed mine. There ‘s much to unpack in that statement.
- Am I sharing the Good News?
- Is it changing others lives everywhere?
- Did it change my life? When did it change my life?
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Is it still changing my life?
OK. These questions are a little haunting, especially if I ask myself is the Good News changing lives in my own home? How different is my family from the rest of the world? Is God’s word impacting their lives? Why or why not? The why or why not is directly related to Question #1. Am I sharing with my family – my wife, my sons, my daughters – the impact and change God’s word has on my own life?
Lord, please help me realize and be attentive to “teachable moments” with my family. I Peter 3:15 says “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; ” I ask to be attentive and ready Lord, especially to those in my own household. In Jesus’ name… Amen.
I wonder how much we will see that change? What about Atheist who read all the time and have practically memorized most of the Bible and yet nothing has changed, atleast as we see it? I think its that second part of verse 6 “and understood the truth about Gods wonderful grace.” I think its not only when we just preach the word and speak it over our wives and kids and co-workers and eachother, its when we understand it and begin to walk it out with love, like verse 4 says. Thats a good word shoe. How can I change the people in my world and elsewhere, spend time and understand how it is written.