The Daily is Our Resource for Studying God’s Word
Today's passage builds on the fruit of the Spirit covered on Wednesday and the wisdom of the Word, covered yesterday and focuses specifically on the family. Those preceding insights give a solid spiritual foundation on which to understand today's wisdom. Family is used to describing God's relationship within the Godhead (i.e. Father and Son) and His relationship with His Church (Husband and bride).
Luke Harbaugh
Though our salvation is secured, we are called to walk in faith and obedience to God’s Word. That is to serve others in a way that echoes the characteristics, servanthood, and love of Christ. Yesterday, we learned that to do this, we are required to “put off” and obtained from sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desires (as defined by scripture), covetousness, and idolatry. Today, we see what we must replace these with. In a state of already, but not yet, new creations being made perfect, this is something we must continue to do daily as God “brings to completion the good work he started in us”.
Jon Kalis
Paul reminds the church what being in Christ means. Chiefly it means imitating Christ, who put to death our bondage to sin and gave us a new life. Paul writes that we are given a new self when we put on Christ: “This new self is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator” (v 10).
Monica Godfrey
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