Verse of the Day 12/6
Colossians 2:6-7 You have accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord. Now keep on following him. 7 Plant your roots in Christ and let him be the foundation for your life. Be strong in your faith, just as you were taught. And be grateful. Contemporary English Version (CEV)
Our men's Bible study group has been going through the book of Colossians and last week we went through this passage (below). As we talked about it we considered how they were words to live by and how they could easily be recited day by day as a reminder of what we have in Christ. As the heading suggests, we are alive and how our lives and find our meaning in Christ. It is not something that is to be taken for granted and isn't something that we can achieve in a single prayer and be "good for life". We are to be "rooted" and "built up in Him" (ESV).
The Contemporary English Version (above) puts it in terms that we can easily relate to. You have accepted Christ – confirming the act of saving faith; now, every day our challenge is to keep on following Him. That is what it means to walk, to live by faith. We are to "plant roots", receive spiritual nourishment from drawing upon the power of His Word and communicating with God in prayer and living in the power of the Holy Spirit. These are the building blocks, the foundation of our lives. Be strong; lean on those everlasting arms in the face of life's challenges, and hold on just as you have been taught. Then, to top it off, be thankful. Remember what we have in Him and show that gratefulness with the sacrifice of praise and as we considered last week, pass it on.
What a fellowship, what a joy divine
Leaning on the everlasting arms
What a blessedness, what a peace is mine
Leaning on the everlasting arms
Leaning, leaning
Safe and secure from all alarms
Leaning, leaning
Leaning on the everlasting arms
What have I to dread, what have I to fear
Leaning on the everlasting arms?
I have blessed peace with my Lord so near
Leaning on the everlasting arms
Read the passage below. Let it speak to you. May you return to it or another passage that reminds you and keeps reminding you of who we are in Christ.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 English Standard Version (ESV)
4 "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a] 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
-- In Christ, Mike Folllow the Verse of the Day blog at http://mikesvotd.blogspot.com Ephesians 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace. NIV
Colossians 2:6-15 English Standard Version (ESV)
Alive in Christ
6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits[a] of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, 10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. 11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities[b] and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.[c]
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