Seek that which is above

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Description Author Biography Customer Reviews In this beautifully illustrated book, Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI gives us profound meditations on what our life in Christ should be like as it is lived through the various Seasons and Feasts of the liturgical year. This book also includes thoughts on other spiritual and secular themes such as the true nature of peace, why it is difficult for so many to experience joy, the relationship between spirit and matter, vacation and rest, etc.

Here is a shepherd leading the faithful entrusted to his care to deep springs of refreshing, life giving water. Be the first to submit a review on this product! Doors in the Walls of the World. By: Peter Kreeft. Add to Cart Add. By: Elio Guerriero. How did Jesus walk? He desired to please the Father and so He obeyed, living a holy life. He wants us to live as He lived in obedience to the Father.

After the passage that you have asked about, Col. Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.

For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. The verses before and after Colossians are concerned about living a godly life. Instead, God measures our lives by what we desire to do and what we do. Are you desiring and seeking to live for God, to live according to your new life in Jesus Christ?

If so,. Colossians NASB. God never intended for Christians to live a life filled with things to be avoided. Instead we are to live a holy life that is motivated from a desire to please God. In the process of seeking to please Him, we will want to avoid things that are not holy. We should desire to be holy because we want to and not because we have to or must. Colossians 3. Lexham English Bible. Seek the Things Above 3 Therefore, if you have been raised together with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Put Off the Old Behavior 5 Therefore put to death what is earthly in you [ a ] : sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustful passion, evil desire, and greediness, which is idolatry, 6 because of which the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, 7 in which also you once lived, when you used to live in them.