MY DAILY COVENANT WITH
GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion for Friday August 28, 2020
Topic: Ways to Redirect Your Focus 1
Text: Colossians 3:5 – 7
Yesterday, we read Paul’s call on us to redirect our focus from worldly
things to heavenly. Today and tomorrow, we shall be considering ways to
redirect our focus on things eternal instead of the things worldly.
Paul noted in this epistle that if the Colossian believers were to
live as examples of Christ, they had to put to death certain aspects of the
sinful earthly things lurking within them, the sinful nature; the old self.
Two sets of sins are listed by Apostle Paul, which he advised that
they should put to death or mortify. The first five refer to sexual sin; the
second five to sins of speech/action. We’ll discuss sins of speech/action tomorrow.
The first five relates to the cultural background of the Colossians and were
particularly deadly to the life of the church: Sexual sin, impurity, lust,
shameful desires and greed for good things of life which he called idolatry.
These five sins mentioned here directly affect our spirituality and they
attract God’s anger too. Every true Christian should be cautious so as not to
fall prey of these sexual sins.
It is necessary to mortify sins, because if we do not kill them,
they will kill us. Although Paul told them in Colossians 3:3, that they were
dead to sin, yet here, in Colossians 3:5, he charged them to mortify sin;
intimating, that the work of mortification, at the best, is but imperfect, and
must be carried on daily and progressively.
How are you mortifying your body so that you could be focused on
Christ and heavenly things? Note that mortification is not a thing of once and
for all.
Food for Thought: What are the ways you can mortify sin in your life?
Memory verse: Colossians 3 v 5
Prayer: Grant me the grace O Lord to put to death all sinful desire in me in Jesus name.
