The core of sin and rebellion can be found in ourselves when we believe we have the ability to save ourselves apart from God.  It’s called pride.  The thing about pride is, we never see it in ourselves.  We are too prideful to see pride.  But our condition of pride is revealed in how we treat God.

We become so aware of our struggle in life, we turn to ourselves, our talent, our connections to save ourselves.  We work hard.  We get busy.  We become tired and stressed.  We can be so filled with our pride, the things of God seem almost silly.  Things like surrender, prayer and rest.  ‘We don’t have time for that,’ we say.  It’s hard to make the connection, I surrender and God moves on my behalf.  So we continue to work at saving ourselves.

Colossians completely confronts our life condition and gives practical, simple, common sense ways to live.