THINK TOGETHER
What are some of the way that you are being filled with knowledge (school, church, family, TV, etc.)?
READ TOGETHER
Can you find the book of Colossians in your Bible? The Apostle Paul opens up his letter to the Christians in Colossae (the Colossians) with a prayer. Here's how his prayer begins:
Colossians 1:9. And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Paul prays that these Christians (and all Christians including us) would be filled with a knowledge of God's will. In other words, Paul wants us to know what God wants. So what does God want? God wants us to become like Jesus. That's why Paul says we need spiritual wisdom and understanding. Not earthly wisdom, like what video game to buy, or what book to read for your book report, or even what school to go to.
So the most important question that everyone who loves Jesus should be asking each time we make a choice is, "Will this make me more like Jesus?" Or, "Would this be something that Jesus would want me to do?"
More than anything else God wants us to be like Jesus. And the good news is that if we have trusted in Jesus as our savior then his life is connected to ours and we WILL be like him. Little by little. Day by day. We will get more and more spiritual knowledge, which is just a fancy way of saying that we will know what Jesus is like more and more. We will be filled with the knowledge of Jesus and his great love for us no matter what.
Because of Jesus we can know God's will – to be like Jesus.
With Jesus we can be like him.
DO SOMETHING TOGETHER
Watch It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. How is Jesus different from the Great Pumpkin? Jesus is a person not a pumpkin. We can be like a person, but not a pumpkin.
PRAY TOGETHER
Jesus, God wants me to be more like you and I want to be more like you. Keep giving me spiritual knowledge of who you are and what you are like so I can live like you do. Amen.
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