Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Colossians 2:16-23
by: Joy Choquette.
Open any magazine or flip through any TV commercials and you will be encouraged to eat this, but not that or to exercise in this way, but not that way. Our society is rife with “do’s and don’ts” about health and wellness. It was similar in Paul’s day. Yet this passage encourages us to focus less on the do’s and don’ts and more on God’s principles and His love—on the freedom that we can enjoy through Christ. We are to follow God’s rules, not those of the world; to see ourselves and each other through God’s loving gaze, not our culture’s. How could that change impact your life today?