Colossians 1:9 That is why we keep on talking to God about you since the day we heard about you. We ask him that you may know everything he wants you to do. We ask him that you may be very wise and that the Spirit will help you to understand.
10 We ask him that you will live the way the Lord wants you to live, so that you will please him in everything you do. We ask that you will do everything that is good. We ask that you will see the fruit from what you do. We ask that you will know more and more about God.
11 God has wonderful power. And we ask him to give you all the strength you need to go through all your troubles,to be very patient in them, and to be happy.
12 Thank the Father who has made us ready to be with the people of God who live in his light.
Day 10—Let us begin settling into our inheritance in the Kingdom of God’s Son. |
There could be no Word in Scripture more clear in defining how the redemption through His blood brings us into His Kingdom. In the Colossians passage for today we see three distinct actions of God’s grace that take place when we receive the redemption through Christ’s blood.
Recall the words of the preceding verse 6 that speak of acknowledging the grace of God in truth. It is His grace that has brought us into an effectual place in His Kingdom from which we shall share with Him in His Government on the earth.
Revelations 5:9,10—And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
See these words from Colossians 1:12-14—
Giving thanks unto the Father, 1) which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light (He has qualified us for our allotted portion of the inheritance of the saints in the light): 2) Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness (rescued us from the authority of the darkness), and 3) hath translated us into the Kingdom of His dear Son (transferred us into the Kingdom of the Son of His Love): in Whom we have (the) redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins (the deliverance from the captivity once held over us by the sins that had possessed us)...
Those of us who have given ourselves to the purpose and calling of the Lord Jesus, what Paul has laid out in this Colossian passage will draw our spirits on, “enraptured” with the purpose of the redemption that is ours by His blood.
O, GREAT REDEEMER, please open our understanding to know the purpose You hold for our lives. It is beyond anything my mind can grasp, but my heart pounds with excitement at the very thought of being a part of Your Kingdom on earth. Please hold me—and these that I name before You—through the perilous time during which the enemy will try to offend us to the point of defecting from Your fold.
—Rev 5:9,10; Jer 15:15
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