The Monday after the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on October 27, 2025 by under
Scripture: Colossians 3:1-10 (NKJV)
3:1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, 7 in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.
8 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.
Devotion
What God has done, and what the believer now should and can do by the grace of God are the central points of today’s text. Saint Paul goes into deeper detail, beyond what he has said in Romans 6, by speaking of the Christian’s resurrection as already accomplished in Christ’s resurrection. He speaks of the believer being dead; has been raised with Christ; is with Christ in heaven (“hidden with Christ”); has “taken off the old self”; and has “put on the new self.”
This is a reality because the believer has “taken off” and “put on” natures through faith. As one takes off dirty clothes and puts on clean ones, so the Christian is called upon to renounce his evil ways and live in accordance with the rules of Christ’s kingdom. He is to set his heart and mind on things above; he is to put to death practices that belong to his earthly nature; and he is to rid himself of practices that characterized his unregenerate self, and embrace the new man’s nature and practices.
Collect: O Almighty and most Merciful God, of Thy bountiful goodness keep us, we beseech Thee, from all things that may hurt us; that we, being ready, both in body and soul, may cheerfully accomplish those things that Thou wouldest have done; through 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.
