Reading: Colossians 2:6-15
As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have come to fullness in him, who is the head of every ruler and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision, by putting off the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ; when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses, erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it. Reflection I’m writing this on the Sunday morning between Family Camp and Week 4 of this summer’s camping season. Family Camp was great but a lot of us on staff were in our mid-summer slump. We were more quickly irritated, we were tired, and we lacked patience. And so, when the staff gathers to start a fresh new week, I’m going to remind us to get back to our roots. I will remind the staff, as I did during staff training, to look at the cross. We are rooted in Christ and should live in the good of what Jesus did for us. We are a new creation, and because of that we should be patient, alive in the knowledge that God triumphed for us. When you put that kind of perspective on things, a rough week can easily be put behind us. --Chad Hershberger Prayer As we look to the cross, Forgiving Jesus, help us to see the good you did for us. May we live in the good of that action for all humankind. May we continue to set our sights on you so that we might be more joyful. Amen.
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