Col. 2& I Cor 1

Father, thank you for your encouragement to my heart. Today, by your grace, I know the riches of full assurance, and I have knowledge of your mystery: Christ in me; my hope of glory.  In Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Christ is wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption for me. In Christ all the fullness of deity dwells, and I am filled with Christ; I have that same divine material in me.  In Christ I have been circumcised, by putting off the body of flesh, and I have been buried with Christ in baptism and raised with him through faith in the powerful working of Almighty God, my father.

I once was dead in my sin and rebellion, but you, father, have made me alive together with my Lord Jesus, having forgiven me my trespasses by canceling the record that stood against me.  Jesus set it aside by nailing it to the cross.