Devotionals

Let’s discuss the book of Colossians a bit: who wrote it, why they wrote it, when they wrote it, and who and where the Colossians were.

Here are apostle Paul and his disciple and fellow minister of the Gospel, Timothy, writing a letter to the Colossians. Paul and other ministers like Timothy took the Gospel to different places, as Jesus told the original disciples and effectively all of us to do: the Great Commission, to go out into all the world, teaching them to obey all that Jesus commanded and baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.

That resulted in new Christians in places like the city of Colossae—likely reached by Paul & Timothy’s fellow minister, local leader and disciple of Paul, Epaphras. Essentially, Epaphras has been keeping his brothers in Christ updated on how things are going in his church plant in Colossae, and his brothers’ response to him is this letter to the Colossians.

When you think of God’s holiness, what comes to mind?

At one point in my life, the thought of His holiness evoked feelings of unworthiness and separation. Without an accurate understanding and knowledge of who He really was, I was lost under the weight of the reality of who I was.