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Consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.<\/p>\n
\u2013Colossians 3:5<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Galatians 6:7 says, \u201cWhatever a man sows, this he will also reap.\u201d In other words, whatever you plant is what you\u2019re going to harvest. You don\u2019t plant an apple seed and harvest a kumquat. What you plant is what you get, and that\u2019s true for every area of life. As one person put it, \u201cPlant a thought and reap a word; plant a word and reap an action; plant an action and reap a habit; plant a habit and reap a character; plant a character and reap a destiny.\u201d Our destiny begins with our thoughts. That\u2019s the message of this week\u2019s passage in Colossians 3.<\/p>\n
In this chapter, Paul called on us to be heavenly minded\u2013to conform our everyday attitudes, affections, and actions to those of Jesus Christ. Verse 3 says, \u201cYou have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.\u201d Just as Jesus died on the cross, your old sin nature has been crucified, and you have been raised to a new way of living.<\/p>\n
In verse 5, Paul talked about our responsibility in the process of becoming like Jesus. He wrote, \u201cTherefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.\u201d In other words, act in a way that is consistent with who you are in Christ, and who you are in Christ is someone over whom sin has no hold.<\/p>\n
My friend Bobb Biehl once worked at a circus for a day. He was amazed to see a ten-ton elephant tied to the same size stake as a \u201clittle\u201d three-hundred-pound elephant. Wouldn\u2019t the larger animal be able to pull up that stake? A trainer explained, \u201cWhen they\u2019re babies, we stake them down. They try to tug away from the stake maybe 10,000 times before they realize they can\u2019t possibly get away. At that point, their \u2018elephant memory\u2019 takes over, and they remember for the rest of their lives that they can\u2019t get away from the stake.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before we became Christians, we had no power to break free from addictions and wrong relationships. Now we have the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives. But sometimes our memory takes over and we think we\u2019re the same as before, so we don\u2019t even try to break free from sin. Paul was saying we need to remember who we are in Christ and act accordingly. That means dealing decisively with sinful actions and attitudes in our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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