NOTES for Col 3:1-11
Our visible life, our biological life, unfolds in particular cities and countries. But having died with Christ, we have received a new life, life in the biblical sense of the word—eternal life, which God possesses eternally. And in his letter to the Colossians, the apostle Paul writes that for now this life is hidden, concealed in God, but that it will be revealed in all its fullness (“glory”) when Christ comes in glory. Yet although it is hidden, it already exists, and it can transform our biological life here and now if we agree to cast aside all our human lack of love, everything that divides us, and accept the primacy within us of the life of God's Spirit, the Spirit who unites us all in a new world where “Christ is all, and in all.”