Please be in prayer for our worship service on Sunday as we conclude our study in Colossians. At face value, it may seem that there is little to glean from a list of names. However, that’s how Paul normally closes his letters and what we are going to see is that we can draw great encouragement and instruction from Paul's conclusions to his letters. After all, all Scripture is profitable (2 Tim 3:16-17). In this case, we are going to see and be reminded that God uses normal people in normal tasks to carry out his extraordinary plan.
This list of names remind/teach us that we don’t have to have some major public platform to be used mightily of God. Neither do we have to have unique, extraordinary gifts. God’s glory is magnified when God’s people are faithful in the mundane, obscure issues of life. In other words, our place in life isn't the central issue; however, our faithfulness in our place in life is crucial.
But this is often where we fall short. As Os Guinness points out: The problem is not that most Christians aren’t where they should be, but that they aren’t what they should be where they are.
So please pray that the Living God will reveal his glory in this text as he continues to form Christ in his people at Fisherville.
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