Colossians 3:1-4 (NRSV)
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Chapter 3So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Verse 2Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, Verse 3for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Verse 4When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.
Devotion
And we behold you living. With John of Damascus in the eighth century, his translator John Mason Neale in the nineteenth century, and the whole creation, we too sing.
"Come, you faithful, raise the strain
of triumphant gladness!
God has brought forth Israel
into joy from sadness,
loosed from Pharaohs's bitter yoke
Jacob's sons and daughters;
led them with unmoistened foot
through the Red Sea waters.
Neither could the gates of death,
nor the tomb's dark portal,
nor the watchers, nor the seal,
hold you as a mortal:
but today, among your own,
you appear, bestowing
your deep peace, which evermore
passes human knowing.
Alleluia! now we cry
to our Lord immortal,
who triumphant burst the bars
of the tomb's dark portal;
Alleluia! with the Son
God the Father praising;
Alleluia! yet again to the Spirit raising.
-John of Damascus,
"Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain," ELW 363