Putting Off Earthly Things...

Colossians 3:1-3
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Put off those things that are of this world, we are sojourners and strangers here. We should love the things of God--the things above--seeking heaven, not desiring the things of this world.

Oh how we can struggle with this one aspect of our Christian lives!

Colossians 3:4-7
When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
We need to put off those characteristics which marked our old life of sin and instead remember that we are a new creation in Christ and we must live like we are a new creation in Christ!

Colossians 3:8-15
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
And have put on the new [man], which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond [nor] free: but Christ [is] all, and in all.

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.

And above all these things [put on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

Maybe that is the key...LET THE PEACE OF GOD RULE IN OUR HEARTS
Let the peace of God rule in our hearts...the peace that comes from having CHARITY (which is love).

Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 14:33
For God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

Now the God of peace [be] with you all. Amen. (Romans 15:33)