May 31st 2026
Your Earthly Understanding Cannot Comprehend The Wonderful Plans That God Our Father Has For Those Who Chose To Follow His Son In This Cursed World!
Colossians 3:11 (NIV)
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Following is today’s selected verse in context, and you can see these verses seem to describe a follower of Jesus Christ. Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. (Colossians 3:11-14). Many people who attend a church regularly may take pride in their profession of being a Christian!
Yet Paul makes a point to inject the word humility in the midst of this description of a follower of Jesus Christ! I recently heard a description of what humility means, “Humility is NOT thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less!” Today we often hear the term pride used to embellish the lifestyle someone has chosen for themselves what in God’s Word is considered to be sinful. Some people are even proud of the fact that they have killed several people during their lifetime! Some people make their living by hiring themselves out as a hitman who will kill someone for you for a price!
I found it interesting that in the NIV Translation the word pride appears fifty-five times in the Old Testament and only seven times in the New Testament! Jesus coming into this cursed world has made it more difficult for anyone to blame someone else for our sinful thoughts or actions. Remember, your salvation is a free gift obtained by believing that Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior. While we each must seek salvation by coming to believe Jesus is who He says He is, before we can be saved from going to hell, we must be chosen by Jesus as He selected His disciples when He walked this earth. Jesus told us this when He said, “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.” (John 15:16).
Your (our) salvation while still living in this cursed world changes us by us being born again makes us become disciples of Jesus Christ, so we are expected by God to spread the Word about Jesus Christ, so that everyone in this cursed world gets to hear about God’s salvation plan based only on believing that Jesus Christ is who He says He is!
As Jesus was leaving this earth to go back to Paradise and be at the right hand of God, Jesus gave us a command as He did His earthly disciples. Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." (Matthew 28:16-20).
John wrote what Jesus said about His mission of coming into this cursed world, and it was not to condemn this world but to offer salvation for everyone living in this world. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. (John 3:17). Many people have difficulty believing there is only one salvation plan, but think about it, there is only one Triune God that created this world for mankind’s place to live! Since there is only one plan it makes it easier for you to know who to follow and what to believe.
The earthly church of Jesus Christ, therefore, is meant to also be of one mind, as we are all following the one and only Jesus Christ. Matthew recorded what Jesus said about this oneness of His followers. "Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them." (Matthew 18:19-20). Notice that Jesus tells us it does not require a huge number of people to gather and expect Jesus Spirit to join them. It only requires two or three, Jesus said, “For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them."
This earth seems to me to be a wonderful place, but it is a cursed place, and God loves us as followers of His Son, Jesus Christ! Therefore, God has a plan to create a new heavenly place for all who are chosen by Jesus Christ and are thus born again to go to that place, when it is ready. So, we need to believe God’s Word and look forward to this new heaven. Paul wrote about these wonderful thoughts! For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:17-18).
We are aliens in this current cursed world but even here we can look forward to a permanent place for our immortal soul to go to we die in this temporary world, and this should offer us a peaceful thought process and to be happy here until Jesus is ready to prepare a room for you in Paradise. My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. (James 1:19-20). An adage comes to mind here! Be happy in Jesus!
Paul wrote about his feelings about living now and what his hope is based on promises of God of a better place that is being prepared for believers and thus causes him to devalue this world and to look forward to this future place that already awaits his soul. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. (Acts 20:24). That Good News awaits you to if you have accepted Jesus Christ’s offer of salvation.
In closing let us dwell on this hope that we share with Paul and all other true believers of a peaceful hope based on the promises of God in our Bible that God has prepared for us to study! And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:7). Your earthly understanding cannot comprehend the wonderful plans that God Our Father has for those who chose to follow His Son in this cursed world!
Your brother in life through Adam, your brother in eternity through Jesus,
Bob Moak
Colossians 3:11 (NIV)
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Following is today’s selected verse in context, and you can see these verses seem to describe a follower of Jesus Christ. Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. (Colossians 3:11-14). Many people who attend a church regularly may take pride in their profession of being a Christian!
Yet Paul makes a point to inject the word humility in the midst of this description of a follower of Jesus Christ! I recently heard a description of what humility means, “Humility is NOT thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less!” Today we often hear the term pride used to embellish the lifestyle someone has chosen for themselves what in God’s Word is considered to be sinful. Some people are even proud of the fact that they have killed several people during their lifetime! Some people make their living by hiring themselves out as a hitman who will kill someone for you for a price!
I found it interesting that in the NIV Translation the word pride appears fifty-five times in the Old Testament and only seven times in the New Testament! Jesus coming into this cursed world has made it more difficult for anyone to blame someone else for our sinful thoughts or actions. Remember, your salvation is a free gift obtained by believing that Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior. While we each must seek salvation by coming to believe Jesus is who He says He is, before we can be saved from going to hell, we must be chosen by Jesus as He selected His disciples when He walked this earth. Jesus told us this when He said, “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.” (John 15:16).
Your (our) salvation while still living in this cursed world changes us by us being born again makes us become disciples of Jesus Christ, so we are expected by God to spread the Word about Jesus Christ, so that everyone in this cursed world gets to hear about God’s salvation plan based only on believing that Jesus Christ is who He says He is!
As Jesus was leaving this earth to go back to Paradise and be at the right hand of God, Jesus gave us a command as He did His earthly disciples. Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." (Matthew 28:16-20).
John wrote what Jesus said about His mission of coming into this cursed world, and it was not to condemn this world but to offer salvation for everyone living in this world. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. (John 3:17). Many people have difficulty believing there is only one salvation plan, but think about it, there is only one Triune God that created this world for mankind’s place to live! Since there is only one plan it makes it easier for you to know who to follow and what to believe.
The earthly church of Jesus Christ, therefore, is meant to also be of one mind, as we are all following the one and only Jesus Christ. Matthew recorded what Jesus said about this oneness of His followers. "Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them." (Matthew 18:19-20). Notice that Jesus tells us it does not require a huge number of people to gather and expect Jesus Spirit to join them. It only requires two or three, Jesus said, “For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them."
This earth seems to me to be a wonderful place, but it is a cursed place, and God loves us as followers of His Son, Jesus Christ! Therefore, God has a plan to create a new heavenly place for all who are chosen by Jesus Christ and are thus born again to go to that place, when it is ready. So, we need to believe God’s Word and look forward to this new heaven. Paul wrote about these wonderful thoughts! For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:17-18).
We are aliens in this current cursed world but even here we can look forward to a permanent place for our immortal soul to go to we die in this temporary world, and this should offer us a peaceful thought process and to be happy here until Jesus is ready to prepare a room for you in Paradise. My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. (James 1:19-20). An adage comes to mind here! Be happy in Jesus!
Paul wrote about his feelings about living now and what his hope is based on promises of God of a better place that is being prepared for believers and thus causes him to devalue this world and to look forward to this future place that already awaits his soul. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. (Acts 20:24). That Good News awaits you to if you have accepted Jesus Christ’s offer of salvation.
In closing let us dwell on this hope that we share with Paul and all other true believers of a peaceful hope based on the promises of God in our Bible that God has prepared for us to study! And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:7). Your earthly understanding cannot comprehend the wonderful plans that God Our Father has for those who chose to follow His Son in this cursed world!
Your brother in life through Adam, your brother in eternity through Jesus,
Bob Moak
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