Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Improve on this!!!

Automakers deliver new and improved cars for our safety and pleasure. Retailers deliver better service and compete for our business with supposedly improved products. Homebuilders look for ways to give more home for the money with amenities and attractive features. Even food producers look for ways to improve everything from Cheerios to Cheetos.

However, I sincerely doubt that anyone, anywhere, at any time could improve on these words:

For this reason, since the day we heard it, we have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God's will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may lead lives worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, as you bear fruit in every good work and as you grow in the knowledge of God.   May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, while joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints of light. He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transformed us into the kingdom is his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.   (Colossians 1:9-14)

May God help us to see the power in each word, the joy in each segment of our salvation, and the wonder of the supreme and supernatural effect of our redemption in Christ - who paid our debt in full.

Thank you Father for the sacrifice made to secure my rescue. Through the power of your Spirit, may I lead a life worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him.