"But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him. Colossians 3:8-10 NKJV
We are subject to anger and losing our temper, blowing our stack and possibly using some uncontrolled language that goes with the territory. Just look at an average day. You get up later than normal, the kids are not ready for school and have no intention of getting ready, the telephone rings and it is one of those long calls that you could well do without. You shout at the kids, your spouse and even the cat and the dog who are in the way and then you dash out to do the school run and find there has been a heavy frost and the windscreen of the car is iced up and you realise that you have no de-icer. Words are spoken that you later regret and you are all fired up as well. Be honest, should it be this way? Probably not, but it affects many families each and every day. How do we deal with it?
The Apostle Paul says that we should 'put off all these', he then gives us the list of things, noted above, that we should put aside. What does it mean to 'put off all these?' Literally it means to get rid of them, in other words, we should not allow them them to take hold of us and rule the moment. We need to deal with it immediately. Easier said than done, agreed, but it is essential that we need to take this action otherwise, mayhem can rule as we see from the above example.
Paul also says in v5, that we should, 'put to death your members which are on the earth'. These are the sins of our earthly nature. They don't belong in our life and as believers, we have taken off the old man with all of this rubbish and put on the new man, built in Jesus. Why dirty up what Jesus has made clean? They are just grave clothes, therefore we need to put on the clean clothes of a new life that Jesus has given us.
He knows how difficult it is but He showers us with His grace and favour and will help us, every inch of the way. But we have to 'put off all of these', to get rid of them and to deal with it. They do not belong anymore. Part of the word Paul says in verse 9 is 'Do not lie to one another'. Do you realise that we lie to one another every time we try to cover up our problems? Instead of covering them up, when you meet with another believer, ask them to pray for you. This helps to remove the traces of worldly behaviour. Whether we like it or not, we need each other.
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