Colossians 3:2-4 English Standard Version

2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Picking up where we left off yesterday, since our life is hidden in Christ and we live in the flesh, the only way to bridge the gap between those two lives is faith that speaks the same language in both.

We know from reading John’s gospel that Jesus is the Word. We know that He is Truth. We also know the only way to know the truth is by reading the Word. If we have not read His Word we do not know Him as we ought to know Him.

Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 8 that “knowledge” puffs up, and if anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. Reading without faith does not communicate the Truth that abides in us. It will not speak to us.

Hearing by faith is required to bridge the gap between our life in the flesh and our life in Christ. The key word in 1 Corinthians 8 is imagines.

Acts 17:29 English Standard Version (ESV) Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.

We must not allow our minds to imagine an image of God that is not real. If we create an image in our minds that is a god we can live with, that we can admire and worship then we have done nothing but lie to ourselves. That is the vanities of all vanities.

We must know Him in Truth and Spirit and that is only possible by faith in Christ.

Read the bible like it is a scholastic endeavor and that is all it will be.

Read the Word by faith and He will speak to us.

Faith bridges the gap.