Union With Christ

Living in Covenant

A Fulfilled Covenant

Live in the light of God (Isaiah 2:5) 

Hearts United in Love

Colossians 2:16-23 The Message

16-17 So don’t put up with anyone pressuring you in details of diet, worship services, or holy days. All those things are mere shadows cast before what was to come; the substance is Christ.
18-19 Don’t tolerate people who try to run your life, ordering you to bow and scrape, insisting that you join their obsession with angels and that you seek out visions. They’re a lot of hot air, that’s all they are. They’re completely out of touch with the source of life, Christ, who puts us together in one piece, whose very breath, and blood flow through us. He is the Head, and we are the body. We can grow up healthy in God only as he nourishes us.
20-23 So, then, if with Christ you’ve put all that pretentious and infantile religion behind you, why do you let yourselves be bullied by it? “Don’t touch this! Don’t taste that! Don’t go near this!” Do you think things that are here today and gone tomorrow are worth that kind of attention? Such things sound impressive if said in a deep enough voice. They even give the illusion of being pious and humble and ascetic. But they’re just another way of showing off, making yourselves look important.

For Reflection

Who is an authentic Christian? Is it one that follows religion blindly? Luther, as did other reformers; Zwingli, Wesley, Calvin, Knox, Augustine, Pope Leo X, Thomas Moore, Ignatius of Loyola doubted religion but not God and helped us see God with new eyes in the changing worlds they faced.


The Christian faith has always been able to meet the spiritual circumstances of the time. Its evolution is a messy thing, but somehow, in the turmoil that change brings, God has revealed God's will and the Kingdom grows in ways more consistent with the life of Christ.

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Pray and be willing to accept constant change into the likeness of God through Jesus.

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