For many of us, it can be easy to look back on your old life before Christ and think that it was easier and less complicated than your life after surrendering to Jesus. It becomes really simple for us to forget all the reasons that your old, worldly life was robbing your soul, and you start to think this journey into real life with Jesus isn’t worth the “trouble”. Maybe, if you went back to your old ways, you believe things would be easier.
There are a lot of people that, instead of leaning into this real life that Jesus offer, head back to the empty way of the past. And Paul, in his letter to the Colossians, just urges them not to do this. What Jesus has to offer is so good, but he's going to have to give you the strength that is needed to persevere. He's going to have to get you rooted in him, and you're going to have to get this in your blood. It's not going to be easy. But seriously consider if there is another, better option. Do you really want the empty, fake life of your past? Or do you want to press forward? Paul tells his readers that they are going to have to lean in. They're going to have to have a no-matter-what-it-takes kind of attitude and heart to just say, “I'm not going back to the empty, futureless, hopeless life that I had before I met Jesus.”
DISCUSSION/REFLECTION QUESTIONS: What in your old life sometimes is tempting you to want to go back? What keeps you rooted in your current life with Christ?
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