Today’s reading is Colossians 1:1-2:23.

Colossians 2:18-19 caught my attention today: “Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.”

I’m thankful for the focus reminder again today. If I let go of the Head, I’ll be disqualified. I can come up with all kinds of great rules for how I should be religious. I can establish a daily regimen of Bible reading and prayer time. I can make a decision to deprive myself of all kinds of things in an attempt to show God how great I am. No doubt, study, prayer, fasting, looking to the spiritual instead of the physical are all good things when done properly. However, when my asceticism is me in my strength trying to prove I’m spiritual, it never works. 

I have to hold fast to the Head, that is Jesus Christ. My number one goal today must be to connect with Him, to know Him, to be in Him, to let Him guide and direct me. When I’m doing that, the rest will take care of itself. Actually, He will take care of the rest.

God, please let me know Jesus better today and give me the strength to carry out His will.

Keep the faith and keep reading,

ELC

P.S. What struck you in today’s reading?