For today’s devotion, we invite you to spend time pondering God’s message to you in this passage from Colossians 3. Ponder that in the US we are celebrating Labor Day—our work, our jobs, our labor. What does this passage teach in relationship to these three aspects of life?
Read it slowly.
Ask yourself, “What is God saying to me? What lesson should I learn?”
Ask yourself, “How is God inviting me to respond to this truth?”
Consider how your life might be shaped, changed, or formed by the truth in this passage.
Read the passage again, this time as a prayer. Ask God to make the truth it teaches or the response it asks for a reality in your life.
Spend a few minutes in quiet reflection and celebration as you close your devotion time.
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Colossians 3:15-17