Hello Nancy,
My sister in Christ, thank you for taking time out of your day to send a reply. Would say you are right when we pay attention to the material or temporal aspects of life, that will at the end not give anything back to the person who desires that over God. It would seem if a person instead of focusing on the earthly aspects yet do learn to understand them, focus on the spiritual aspects of life, always praying, giving thanks to God, seeking to put Him first in that persons life will actually add life to their being in the building faith, and building the inner-spirit person that has been born of God and became a child of God when they had come to to faith.
It is so true when you mention also about complaining. All of us have done it in some point or time. That is when it might be best to direct our attention back to God and what his will is for us to do as walking in faith in the Gospel of Christ, and look at the word and see how we can let go of complaining and give it to the all consuming fire - God and let him burn those problems up as we give them to him in our prayers.
Oh man a great verse by verse on all of those verses that you shared here from Colossians are going to be a time to go through assuredly. Now just realizing this is from Colossians, have started a small study now going for the project of going through it verse by verse and expounding on the text and considering the things of God worshiping God in spirit and in truth!
That is what it is all about in faith, thank you
@marks
Matthew G.
That is a interesting text you shared here with me, and others, thank you
@farouk. Hope that you and your family are doing okay.