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today's devotional. Hey, thanks for joining us. My name is Mike Bro. And together right now on the

Daily Drive, we are walking through a little book in the back of the New Testament called The Book of Colossians.

It's actually a letter written by a guy named Paul to a group of brand new Jesus followers, just encouraging them to embrace their new normal as they live for Jesus.

And we're just a few episodes into it, so if you miss the last few, you can go back and catch up if you like,

or just simply walking through some verses together and trying to hear and apply what God might be saying to us on a personal level.

And we are toward the end of the first chapter today, and we come up on a verse that has been life-changing for me.

I read a book a couple of years ago called With.

It's written by Skye Jahani, and he explores five postures that people take in a relationship with God.

And we'll probably take a week later on and unpack some of those at a later podcast.

But just for the day, there's a posture of life under God, where you might have vision

God as this invisible creature that's out there somewhere who is almighty and he's on this

huge authoritative ego trip, so you do not want to tick him off.

So you spend your life in this spin cycle of fear, guilt, shame, navigating the

series of don't do this and don't do that. Man, I live that way for way too many years. Then there's

life over God. This is the perspective of atheism, humanism that says there is no God. We are. I call the

shots. I chart the course. I make the rules, I control my destiny,

I am self-sufficient, I'm my own source of truth. Then there's life from God, where we just see

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