daily reading 40.3 (Colossians 1:18–20)

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024


Our opening prayer for this week:

    Praise to you and adoration,
    Blessed Jesus, Son of God,
    Who, to serve your own creation,
    Came to share our flesh and blood.
    Guide me that I never may
    From your fold or pastures stray,
    But with zeal and joy exceeding
    Follow where your steps are leading.

    Hold me ever in your keeping;
    Comfort me in pain and strife.
    In my laughter and my weeping
    Be with me throughout my life.
    Give me greater love for you,
    And my faith and hope renew
    In your birth, your life, your passion,
    In your death and resurrection. Amen.

Colossians 1:18–20

  • He is also the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything.
  • 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile everything to himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
helpful notes on Colossians 1:18–20







































For yourself pray:

  • That like Paul's, your praise to God rises higher and higher

For others pray

  • That God spreads the good news of the kingdom of the Son he loves in the Netherlands

A song to listen to and ponder, as time allows

  • Psalm 120 (YouTube, duet, "I took my troubles to the Lord, and he answered me.")

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