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* 5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.

He lists out some things that even to this day thousands of years later are still and issue for us. Turn on the TV or open a magazine and you can be inundated with images and headlines that would draw us from God. But we are warned that only leads to the wrath of God.

* 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.

Because we have become a new person in Christ Jesus we now walk a new path. A path that avoids these things and we must remove ourselves from them.

* 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

* 11 Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

-Colossians 3:5-11

We are a new creation and we are to live as such. It’s not always easy but Jesus has assured us that he is there to help. Call on him in times of weakness and he will pull you through.

As you go through this new week rely on Jesus and stay on the path that he would have you travel.

Press on. Fight the good fight. As a Soldier for Christ.