Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

¹⁶ Therefore, let no one judge you in matters of food and drink or with respect to a festival, a New Moon, or Sabbath days.^{[a] 17} These are a shadow of the things to come, but the reality^[b] belongs to the Messiah.^{[c] 18} Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels cheat you out of the prize by rejoicing about what he has seen.^[d] Such a person is puffed up for no reason by his carnal mind. ¹⁹ He does not hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, which is nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God enables it.

The New Life in the Messiah

²⁰ If you have died with the Messiah^[e] to the basic principles of the world,^[f] why are you submitting to its decrees as though you still lived in the world? ²¹ “Don’t handle this! Don’t taste or touch that!” ²² All of these things will be destroyed as they are used, because they are based on human commands and teachings. ²³ These things have the appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion, humility, and harsh treatment of the body, but they have no value against self-indulgence.