The Simple Life

Colossians 3:1-10 Chapter 3   Put On the New Self   1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.   5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.   Ephesians 5:1-12   Walk in Love   1

1 Samuel 8:7-9 7 And the Lord said to Samuel, "Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. 8 According to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you. 9 Now then, obey their voice; only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them." This was democracy in action. The people voted, the people demanded, and the people were wrong. It is easy to get into a frenzy and join the rest of the sheep in running in circles. The other nations have a king; we do not. They are normal; we are not. We want to be normal; we do not care what it costs us. Sometimes we can be most foolish. God certainly gives man real choice and allows this real choice to be translated into real consequences. We the people are only free w