Daily Devotions

Col 3: 12

Clothe yourselves with compassion and patience.

Here is Paul writing to instruct believers to put on the virtues of compassion and patience. These are also the virtues of God and Paul wrote in Eph 5: 1 ‘Be ye therefore followers of God…’  

Just a few verses before that in Paul wrote in Eph 4: 32 ‘And be ye kind to one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.’ Paul was the one who had received the doctrine of the gospel from Jesus personally and was therefore able to write these in his letter to the different Churches.

He also reminded the Church of what Jesus taught in Luke 6: 36 Be ye therefore merciful as your Father also is merciful. The whole purpose of the gospel is to transform the believers to be just like Christ and to live godly lifestyles. This is the sole purpose of the gospel which is to prepare all believers to be godly and holy so that they may inherit the kingdom of heaven.

In recent times, I have also seen many apostles and evangelists emphasizing on the need to train and equip the believers to walk and live righteously as we see the last days already upon us. This is indeed an important mission for the Church which is a place of preparation and training to enable all believers to secure their salvation.

One apostle brought out this truth, ‘the church is the body of Christ but not the whole Church is the bride of Christ’. This means that only those Christians who live righteously and holy lives are qualified to be the bride of Christ and be taken up to heaven as the bride during the ‘rapture’ Those who do not qualify will remain on earth and suffer the consequences of living in sin.

This is indeed a shocking revelation and must be taught to the Church as the Gospel truth.