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Hi I am learning Spanish so I can say things about God and quote scriptures, in Spanish. And I have seen how I can get special blessings through the Spanish, which I did not get through the English. I think this is because our Christian Spanish speaking translators are ministering to me through their translation work, to go along with how people use English to minister to me. So, if God wants me to share in Spanish, He will use Spanish speakers to minister to me.

So, here I plan to share what I am getting through Colossians 1 in English, and then in the Reina Valera 1960 Colosenses capitulo 1.

"Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." (in Colossians 1:2)

Paul and Timothy start off with ministering God's grace and peace to us. So, before we go any further, we need to submit to God in His grace and peace, so He is doing in us all He means by His words that we read in this letter. And discover how You apply this in our lives, how You mean Your words.

"We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you," (Colossians 1:3)

I myself need to be more thankful for my brothers and sisters, in prayer . . . not just showboating to them how much I supposedly know God's word . . . not righteous-signaling, but really caring and appreciating.

"your love in the Spirit" > in Colossians 1:8.

There is love which is not in the Holy Spirit! We need to be able to tell the difference. I would say part of why there are so many marital problems is because we do not know the difference between God's love in us, versus what simply is not really God's love but can be very convincing.

Anyone else is welcome to share in this thread. Right now, I think I'm going to start another thread about knowing the difference between God's love and what is not really love but can seem to be.

Ok, I started the other thread >

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And on we go with Colossians chapter one >

"For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;" (Colossians 1:9)

I think of this > we need how God's love has us knowing things. In Philippians 1:9 Paul shares >

"And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment." (Philippians 1:9)

People can be so very busy with knowledge of the good and evil of this evil world. But in God's love we have knowledge but also "discernment" about where our attention belongs, what we need to be knowing, and how to be and what to do about what we may know. We discover this with God; God shares this with us, so this has us personally relating with the Father, not merely isolating ourselves with our own emotions and ways of reacting to what we know about good and evil.

"And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled" (Colossians 1:21)

So, there was hope for us to become reconciled with God . . . even though we had been "enemies" in our "mind". So, God had hope for me; this is my example, of how I need to have hope for any evil awful impossible person to become reconciled with God > love "hopes all things" (in 1 Corinthians 13:7)

In Colossians 1:21-22, it says "you" "He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight---" (in Colossians 1:21-22)

So, the death of Jesus has reconciled us not only in order to guarantee that we go to heaven, but so we become "holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight".

And in Ephesians 1:4 we have how God chose us in Jesus "that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love" > in Ephesians 1:4. So, our way of being "holy and without blame" has to do with how we become in "in love" > God's love >

"Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us." (Romans 5:5)

And our Apostle Paul says we need "faith working through love", in Galatians 5:6.

So, I see this means we are guaranteed to become holy the way God's love in us makes us holy. This "faith working through love" works . . . succeeds . . . in doing this >

"Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4:17)

So, this is guaranteed; God is able to do this . . . "in this world".. . "that we may have boldness in the day of judgment". This is how our character becomes, so we become like Jesus and love like Jesus, and are even pleasing to our Father like Jesus is and Jesus in us shares this with us.

And, lo and behold, here is what our Apostle Paul says at the end of Colossians chapter one >

"Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily." (Colossians 1:28-29)

So, I see how the focus of God's word and ministry is to have us become "perfect in Christ Jesus". This, then, would be the basic meaning of God's word and ministry.

"For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren." (Romans 8:29)

So, Jesus on the cross did not only guarantee us that we will go to Heaven; but we are guaranteed how our Father will correct and change our character so we are like Jesus > pleasing Him like Jesus does, and loving one another as family . . . so we are prepared for being and loving like this, in the Rapture.

So, now I plan to feed through Colosenses 1 of the Reina Valera translation >

Here, Paul and Timothy call the Christians «fieles». This means "faithful", which is in the English. But this time, I notice this in the Spanish. To be "faithful" to Jesus is like being faithful to the one you are engaged to marry. You do not get into relating which takes away from how you are sharing intimately with your spouse or the one you are preparing to marry.

And how are we to relate faithfully while engaged to Jesus?

"Do all things without complaining and disputing," (Philippians 2:14)

I see how the «fieles» Colossians were pure, sweet and gentle, kind, worshipful, devoted to God. And this kept them out of what God's word means by "complaining and disputing".

Do not do any intimate relating inside ourselves with whatever can cause us to complain or argue. And with this we can become more strong and real in how God's love is and how God has us relating.

We are being "faithful" to our Groom, then, by not cheating with Satan in his complaining and arguing >

"swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath" > in James 1:19-20 > being like this can help us with this Be ready to hear God, instead of trusting the stuff that would have us arguing and complaining. Being "faithful", so we are intimate with God, comes with this, I would say. So, let us trust You, our Father, to truly and deeply correct our character so we love in sharing with You.

«del evangelio, que ha llegado hasta vosotros, así como a todo el mundo» > in Colossians 1:5-6 >

This is saying how the Gospel has reached to the Colossians, «así a todo el mundo»

meaning something like "as to all the world" > through this, I see how the one Gospel is the same good news for the Colossians, as for everyone in the whole world. The message is the same, and God's grace does the same in every one of us.

In Colosenses 1:9 > they pray for the Colossians to have «toda sabiduría e inteligencia espiritual»

> to have "all spiritual wisdom and intelligence", I see this means.

So, this is not only scholarly stuff, but "spiritual", which I see means how God's love has us being wise and intelligent . . . how God's love has us seeing things that we know about. I think of how certain people might not be educated, but they are geniuses about how to relate and communicate with other people. They can relate in love and care about others. I see this could have something to do with it And I would say God has given me examples of how to be and how to relate . . . humbly and kindly and sensitively in gentle and humble love. There are ones of various languages and countries who have helped me with their good example.

I have shared in churches with people from other countries, who might not have much in the United States; but they share as family, and they accepted and shared with me while I was walking interstate and living outdoors with the clothes on my back. They weren't concerned with what they could know about good and evil of how much they or I had, but they were interested in loving and sharing in worship and honor of God.

Colosenses 1:10 says they pray for the Colossians to walk in a way worthy of Jesus >

«agradándole en todo» >

I understand this means, "pleasing Him in all". I would say if we are pleasing Jesus, we are personally relating with Him and pleasing Him . . . being submissive to Him, all the time, in a way pleasing in how we are submissive, I now think. Ones can be submissive but grudgingly or out of fear, right? So, we need how God in His grace changes our character so we are in His love submissive > poor in spirit, meek, merciful, pure in heart like Jesus says in His Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew 5:3-10 > and our Apostle Peter says >

"rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God." (1 Peter 3:4)

So, in order to be pleasing to Jesus while submitting to His rule as Lord of all, we need how His love makes us gentle and quiet. Jesus says He is "gentle and lowly in heart", in Matthew 11:28-30 > my opinion is that being gentle and quiet is like how Jesus is "gentle and lowly in heart". And the way Jesus is is "precious" to our Father.

We need to not only make gestures, theoretically thinking we know what will please God, then. But we need to be how God's love makes us pleasing, so that our works are pleasing.

"Let all that you do be done with love." (1 Corinthians 16:14)

So, then, God does want us to be always personally sharing with Him and how He makes us creative for what to do to love each and every person. He does not want us to just make gestures to Him, like He is at some distance just judging things we do!

Colosenses 1:11 says they pray for us to have >

«longanimidad;» (in Colosenses 1:11)

In English, this word can be "longsuffering".

But I notice something about «longanimidad» > this does not have a word for "suffering" in it. But animidad, can mean being animated . . . made alive, which I see can mean alive in God's love > while we may go through hard things or the nicer things, God's love can keep us alive with kindness and caring and sharing with joy, even . . . so we are not just suffering and grinding our way through things.

So, here is an example of how I get something good by feeding on the Spanish translation.

«fortalecidos con todo poder, conforme a la potencia de su gloria, para toda paciencia y longanimidad; con gozo dando gracias al Padre que nos hizo aptos para participar de la herencia de los santos en luz;» (Colosenses 1:11-12)

To me, this means how we become because of Paul's prayer > made powerful with glory and joy and patience and longsuffering. This is not how humans in egotistical power are. The power of Jesus is in His love so kind and with Heavenly pleasantness of rest > "you will find rest for your souls." (in Matthew 11:29)

So, this is not impatient and forcing power, not controlling and dominating, not with arguing and fighting.

God's love is with power almighty to keep us kind and gentle and humble and not getting hurt in us by Satanic and cruel things >

"And who is he who will harm you if you become followers of what is good?" (1 Peter 3:13)