MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion for Monday August 31, 2020
Topic: Virtues
That Promote Brotherliness
Text: Colossians 3:12 – 17
In our text for today, Paul continued to reveal what a new man in
Christ should be and the things that will promote brotherliness among
Christians and how to live for God. All the virtues that Paul encourages us to
develop (to put on) are perfectly bound together by love.
As we clothe ourselves with these virtues, the last garment we are
to put on is love, which holds all of the others in place. To practice any list
of virtues without practicing love will lead to distortion, fragmentation, and
stagnation (1 Corinthians 13:3).
He also offers a strategy to help us live for God day by day. They
are (1) Imitate Christ’s compassionate, forgiving attitude (Colossians 3:12 –
13); (2) let love guide your life (Colossians 3:14); (3) let the peace of
Christ rule in your heart (Colossians 3:15); (4) always be thankful (3:15); (5)
keep God’s Word in you at all times (Colossians 3:16); (6) live as Jesus
Christ’s representative (Colossians 3:17). These are ways to live well and for
God. Love binds together all the other graces into one whole and thus making
the Christian character complete.
Are these virtues evident in your life? If not, how do you intend
to inculcate them into your life so that Christ will be seen in you?
Food for Thought: All the Christian graces are bound together in love. It is the
source of them all.
Memory verse: Colossians 3 v 14
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