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I was really getting into the study of Paul's writing in Colossians, very interesting if I may say so....but I just was not absorbing it, then I remembered one day when my son & I was talking and he was saying that Christianity is not as difficult as some point out. I or anyone else can read, study, write papers on, teach --whatever, but being a Christian hinges on just 2 things, or so Jesus teaches---If you flip open your Bible to Matthew 22:34-40----a lawyer ask Jesus what is the greatest commandment and He replied---"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the 1st and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself." There you go---to be a Christian it is only required to love God and love our neighbor then all else will just fall not place. I had a friend who is no longer with us, Terry, but in Sunday school Class many, many times he pointed out that we complicate the idea of being a Christian----we love God & love our neighbor. In 1 Corinthians 13 Paul clearly explains Love. I was going to say it is worth the read, but here allow me:

The Greatest Gift

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

All of this sounds easy, but then why do we all struggle so much------God Bless