Day #24

Read Colossians 3:11

Not long ago we were studying in Colossians 3:5-12.  We were talking about clothes that are in the closet of someone who has an idol or idols in their life.  Colossians 3:11 was a very important verse in that whole lesson that we have saved until now.

Please read Colossians 3:11 once more.

Colossians 3:11 says that to believers and obedient followers of Jesus Christ there is no Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free, but Christ is all and is in all.

Historically, Jews have always been God’s chosen people.  Jesus came to His own people, though, and they did not even know who He was.  They thought a lot of themselves, their knowledge of God, and their obedience to the Laws of Moses… but they did not even recognize their Savior when they were seeing Him in human form.   I explain all this to say that the Jews needed to learn that Christ came to offer salvation to those outside the Jewish realm too.  He wanted to be sure that they KNEW that there was NO DISTINCTION among who He came to save.

This verse has to do with the way Christians should look at others.  No one has a special claim on God.  No one is treated with less dignity than another.  There are no distinctions among us.  No one deserves His free gift of salvation more than another.

NOTE: A question you may have is…what is a Scythian?  Well, this was a people group that lived on the northern shore of the Black Sea.  Too many, the Scythians were a violent, uneducated, uncivilized, all-together inferior people. Yet Christ offered salvation to them too.

Christ offers salvation to everyone.  So therefore, there will be many types of people at church that you will come in contact with.  And we are to love them all, with no favorites!

Think of someone today that you may not know well, because they are not in your distinctive circle of people you are comfortable with.  Break out of the cage you have placed yourself in and go talk to that person!!

Click the MEMORY VERSE tab above and study your verses for the week.


Click on the PRAYER REQUESTS tab above.  Please pray for the ones listed.

Click on the PRAISE tab above.  Type in one thing that you are thankful for today.  Try to make it different than any you have listed.

TARGET FOR THE DAY:  Get out of your comfortable group of people today and love someone different that God has created in His image!