We can get so bogged down in the day-to-day details, but in Colossians 3:22-4:1 Paul lifts us up and shows us what Jesus thinks about our work.

In our passage today, Paul exhorts us to put on the new clothes of the gospel to live out a gospel culture. It all starts with where we find our identity. Because we are in Christ, we have his characteristics. This is not something we achieve; it is something God gives. Because we are new people, we have new clothes to wear, which display our new nature and lead to a new community.

True spirituality is not a negative reality but a positive one. Galatians 5:1 says, “For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.” God’s desire is not our continued enslavement to this world or the powers of this world but rather freedom in Christ to live as we were made to live.

When we see Jesus, it’s easy to see wrong theology. But when we take our eyes off Jesus, all kinds of wrong things can slip into our minds and find a home there. What these Colossians needed, and what we need, is a big vision of the glorious Jesus. We need to see how sufficient he really is. We do not need anything else. Jesus is enough. When we start thinking something else is better, something else is needed, we need to come back and stare at Jesus.