40 Days of Prayer _ Youth Devotional Day 2

THE DEITY OF CHRIST COLOSSIANS 2:8–9  

Pray before you read: Holy Spirit, help me understand Your Word. May this time together be  glorifying to You—draw me closer to You. May I see Your work in this passage and in the day  ahead of me.  

I have often wondered when the grumpy, old people in my church started being grumpy.  What started them down the grumpy path? Why would they get so upset about a new song  on Sunday morning? Then, one Sunday, the Holy Spirit convicted me. We were singing  “Reckless Love” again, and I couldn’t do it. I mean, come on. How many times are we going to  sing this song? I heard the Spirit say to me, “You’re not the one they’re worshiping.” 

Oof, it’s true. I had lost the purpose of why we worship. I became a grumpy, old person caught  up in the belief that I was the point and that my enjoyment of worship was the purpose.  Verse 8 warns us of being taken captive like this by tradition rather than Christ. 

Is there a tradition in your life that may have started out as something good but lost the  purpose of bringing Christ the glory? It could be the reason you go to youth group, read your  Bible, or the way you treat your friends.  

Verse 9 talks about Jesus, in full deity, taking bodily form. The all-powerful being who created  life with a breath bound Himself to the squishy human body—a body that is easily changed  and damaged but also a body that couldn’t stop Him from miraculously healing the blind,  the bleeding, and the dead or bearing the weight and pain of the cross. 

PRAYER POINTS: 

1. Thank Jesus for being worthy of all your glory, honor, and praise.

2. Ask God to show you more of His goodness. 

3. Pray that He will reveal to you more of how you can better worship  Him and Him alone.  

»by Russ Joy