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today's devotional. Hey, welcome to the Daily Drive. I'm Mike Bro. And so grateful that you've tuned

in. We've been talking about new life in recent days as we walk through a letter

in the New Testament called Colossians, and we are in chapter 3. And the last time we were

together, we read about how through Jesus we now have an eternal perspective. Our eyes, our minds,

are hearts, are focused now on our real home as we just try to make a difference in the one we're

currently living in.

I love the title of a book by my buddy John Orberg, and you all really ought to read this

sometime. It's called Eternity is Now in Session. I love that title. He dispels the myth that eternal

life is something way out there in outer space that we can only hope to experience after we

die, and that being saved is merely about meeting

the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven. Instead, John unpacks the reality

that the moment we trust in Christ, we are initiated into eternal living with God as a here and now

reality, one that will continue beyond our life here on earth.

And I'm telling you that perspective that eternity is now in session, that changes everything.

So in chapter three, the writer of this letter, Paul, tells us that we have entered into this

new life, one that lasts forever. And today talks about how that for anything to be new, the old

has to go. It has to die. Verse five, he says, so put to death the sinful, earthly things

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