Greetings In Christ

It's truly amazing how wonderful the greetings were from Paul to others in Christ. Seriously, it's not something we see, or hear of today. We say it was something everyone did back then- it was something done in the old days. Truthfully people did have different customs here and there and well, yes, everywhere. We can read old letters from our own country back in the 1700's 1800's and the wording is very strange to us. Here back in the first century AD of course things aren't going to sound like a letter we might write and read today and yet it's amazing to be able to read the inspired word of God and imagine how things were and things might be again someday.
Imagine sitting down to write a letter and beginning it with- , a follower of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to fellow believers, faithful in Christ, grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, I give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you.
It's powerful isn't it? So full of good will, so full of admiration, of adoration towards God, towards Jesus.
Here's Paul writing to those at Colosse, and to all of us really as God inspired this written word to be-
Colossians{1:1} Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, {1:2} To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. {1:3} We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,{1:4} Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
I think it's wonderful, so wonderful to be greeted in this way and to greet others with the love of Jesus, with the grace of Jesus, in all truth.
This isn't a very long study today, unfortunately, but may God be with us all, grace to us all through God, through our Lord Jesus as we seek Him, to know Him, to live our lives in Him now and always.
Amen.