Colossians 3

Put On The New Self


so....i've been struggling with this thought of What is pleasing to God? especially in regards to our community, i want badly to know if what we are "doing" is a pleasing aroma to him. Sometimes i know it is definitely not, but lots of times i find myself a little lost in what is pleasing to him.
i don't have any answers or revelations at the moment but i did come across this portion of Colossians and love the wording. I do believe that God is speaking to people like us who have been "raised with Christ" to a new self and new hope...yet we are human and we do all these fleshy things.
i don't know...i just really loved this passage and was encouraged by it especially when we are all facing some new and hard realities in our community. love you girls


Colossians 3:1-17
"If Then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ IS, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ IN God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him IN glory.

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (epithemia, for you following Rods teachings) which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. BUT NOW you must put them ALL AWAY: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not LIE to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being RENEWED IN KNOWLEDGE AFTER THE IMAGE OF ITS CREATOR. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is ALL and IN ALL.

Put on then, as God's CHOSEN (adopted) ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, BEARING WITH ONE ANOTHER and if one has a complaint against another, FORGIVING eachother; AS THE LORD HAS FORGIVEN YOU, SO YOU MUCH ALSO FORGIVE (sooo good) . And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And BE THANKFUL. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with THANKFULNESS in your hearts to God. AND WHATEVER YOU DO, in word or deed, DO EVERYTHING IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, giving thanks to God the Father (abba) through him."