Lessons from the Book of Colossians (Part 1)
Life Applications and Lessons (Vol. 116)
As we take a look at the life lessons from the book of Colossians, we are going to see a lot about wisdom!
This book of the Bible only contains four chapters, but they are pretty powerful. Let’s dive into this book of wisdom and see what the Lord has for us.
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Life Applications and Lessons from the Book of Colossians
“For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,” Colossians 1:9
- Paul and Timothy were praying for the faithful Church at Colossae.
- They specifically prayed for the Church to:
- Be filled with the knowledge of the Lord’s Will
- To have spiritual wisdom and understanding
- We should pray for others and ourselves to receive these same spiritual qualities.
“…so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, so that you may have great endurance and patience, joyfully giving thanks to the Father, Who has enabled you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.” Colossians 1:10-12
- Did you catch the 2 little words at the beginning – “so that?” They were Praying verse 9 SO THAT the Church (the people) would:
- Walk worthy of the Lord
- Be fully pleasing to Him
- Bear fruit in every good work
- Grow in the knowledge of God
- Be strengthened with all power (according to His glorious might – not their own)
- They wanted them to do the things in verses 10 and 11 SO THAT they would have…
- Great endurance
- Patience
- Be able to give thanks to the Father with a joyful heart
- Share in the saints’ inheritance in the light
- When you break it down like that, it makes you want to refer back to verse 9 and start praying!
Verse 9
“… We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,”
Colossians 1:9
“In Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”
Colossians 2:3
- “Treasures” of wisdom and knowledge! We spend so much time, effort, and brain power to get human knowledge, but how much time and effort are will willing to put forth to gain spiritual wisdom and knowledge? They are worth so much more!
- Treasures are valuable! When we think of the Lord’s unlimited treasures, I don’t even think we can imagine what all is available to us when we seek Him.
- We should be seeking them diligently.
- “In Him” are where we find these treasures! They are hidden in Him.
- The closer we grow to Christ, the more we know Him intimately, the more of the treasures we will find.
Let’s seek the Lord and His treasures of wisdom and knowledge like we would sell out to buy land with secret treasure on it!
Please join us as we read the Word each week and share your insights on these scriptures as well.
Life Applications and Lessons Resources
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If you have joined me recently, these daily life applications from the Bible are examples of some of the comments I am writing in the Bibles I am giving to my grandchildren when they graduate from high school. Click here to see the post where I explain this eternal gift idea. I want to give them all the resources I can to use in today’s world!
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See Lessons from Colossians (Part 2) here.
I hope these life applications and lessons help motivate you to dig into His Word more and more each day.
Please share any encouragement and lessons you learn this week as you read the Word of God. I would love to hear your thoughts.
Until next week…
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What a wonderful lesson and a good reminder for when we face challenges. God is there, to hear our pleas and ease our hearts. Thanks for this wonderful reminder, friend! xo
❤️❤️ Yes He is! What a blessing!!
Colossians is one of my favorite books of the Bible. Thanks for sharing.
I can see why! It is full of good stuff from the Lord!
There’s a lot of good stuff in this post!
Whenever the subject of God’s will for our lives comes up, I always first think of 1 Thess. 5:18, which you quoted in this post. It’s His will for our lives that we find something to be thankful for!
Also, nice to meet you. I love your idea of sharing what you learned from your Grace and Joy! One of my daughters’ middle names is Joy; and if I had it to do all over again, I’d work Grace into one of their names for sure!
Thank you so much! It is so nice to meet you too! Two of my granddaughters have the middle names, Grace and Faith. I love those names!
Excited to dive into Colossians with you, Susan! I was up this morning at 430 googling something completely random because I couldn’t figure out answer. I actually start a lot of my mornings that way because it drives me bananas when I can’t figure something out. So I definitely needed the reminder to seek divine wisdom more than I seek human wisdom. Sending you hugs and thank yous for always giving us your best. I love this series, CoCo
I need to do a better job of starting out that way! I tend to get trapped in the phone early on.😔