Tuesday after Quasi modo geniti Sunday
Posted on April 18, 2023 by under
Scripture: Colossians 2:9-15 (NKJV)
2:9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
Devotion
Having been born in sin, we were born dead. We could not bring ourselves to life. Our sins were a death sentence against us. The punishment was written; the charge was sealed. We deserved death on account of our sinfulness. But our Lord Jesus bore our flesh upon Himself. Untainted by the sin that inheres in our flesh, He offered up His innocent flesh upon the tree of the cross. On account of this we were circumcised by the circumcision made without hands: we were baptized into the Lord’s death.
He has made us alive again, just as He arose again from the dead on the third day. By His death and resurrection He has disarmed all the principalities and powers of their authority to use the charge of sin written against us. No longer can they demand our death. He has burst open the door of our graves. He has raised us up as a new creation through faith, and declared that our sins are forgiven. He has paid the penalty of our sins with His death in our flesh. Now whenever we see the crucifix—see our Lord’s public spectacle that He made of the powers of sin and death—we know that in Him we have forgiveness and life.
Prayer: Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we who have celebrated the solemnities of the Lord’s Resurrection, may, by the help of Thy grace, bring forth the fruits thereof in our life and conversation; through the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
