2020 for JESUS - Day 222: JESUS is CHRIST... GOD... THE WORD OF GOD... THE MYSTERY... THE LORD... THIS MYSTERY... CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY... THE ONE WE PROCLAIM...

Colossians 1:24-29

Paul’s Labor for the Church

²⁴ "Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to CHRIST’s afflictions, for the sake of HIS body, which is the church. 

²⁵ I have become its servant by the commission GOD gave me to present to you THE WORD OF GOD in its fullness— 

²⁶  THE MYSTERY that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to THE LORD’s people. 

²⁷ To them GOD has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of THIS MYSTERY, which is CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY.

²⁸ HE is THE ONE WE PROCLAIM, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in CHRIST. 

²⁹ To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy CHRIST so powerfully works in me.”