Today's readings are taken from Habakkuk 1-3 and Colossians 3.
Colossians 3 is a condensed "cheat-sheet" for Christian living!
Beginning with the foundational mindset that the Christian needs to possess - that of seeking things above to the promise of reward (or punishment!) at the end of it all, this chapter is chokful of fundamental spiritual concepts so crucial to successful Christian living.
I shall leave you to ruminate over the wisdom which speaks much for itself save this quick comment in verse 14.
The idea of a bond is something quite familiar to me! Having to work with a variety of materials on a bow, I use a few types of adhesives for bonding purposes. The varied surfaces and functions require different glues. Sometimes we want as tight a bond as possible, sometimes we need a part to stay but yet drop off if necessary, sometimes it has to be rigid, sometimes flexible.
Yet this spiritual glue that is love is that of perfection or completeness. Lacking in nothing. Multipurpose and for all occasions! That is the key to it all! That is what holds it all together. Paul devoted almost an entire chapter in 1Co 13 taking about this same love, and John no less than almost the entire 1John! That is our primary motivation - of love, as DIRECTED by God, through keeping of His commandments (Jhn 14:15; 1Jn 5:2,3), as Christ has patterned for us.
Brethren, let us continue to learn of God's precepts and put them into action, above all STICK it all together with the perfect bond of love, wherewith we should be known and wherewith we profess the very God Almighty! (1Jn 4:7,8)
The Lord bless our day ahead.
In Him
Paul
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But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. ~ Hebrews 3:13
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. ~ Colossians 3:14,15
