Col 2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
Col 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Rooted. What does it mean to be rooted? Anyone who has worked with gardening and such knows that a plant needs good roots to be healthy. Right now in my waning spring/summer garden (Southwest Florida) I have an okra plant that I put in the ground as a tiny seed back in February- it is now November, almost December. This particular okra plant is still producing the now occasional okra pod and soon it's life span will be spent and produce no more at all. At its prime this plant was producing a lot of pods, and this one plant along with a whole lot of others kept not only my family, but a few others eating fresh okra through the summer. Why am I talking about this one particular okra plant? Because at some point this summer during a particular windy rain storm the plant was laid down on its side, some of its roots exposed. Being well over 7 feet (conservative estimate) tall with many branches, it wasn't going to be possible to simply pull it upright and cover up all those newly exposed roots. I had to leave it and I thought for sure that even after I piled up dirt on the exposed roots that it wasn't going to live much longer. As already stated, it is still living long past mid-summer. It was an odd experience, one I'd never had with okra before, picking okra pods off this horizontal stalk. After a few more storms those roots I'd covered were uncovered again, and it got to the point it was easier to just leave them uncovered and hope whatever root system was still going strong under the ground would keep the okra alive. It kept going strong even as I could see some of its roots above ground. The conclusion that you've already probably come to is, this particular plant must have a really deep, well rooted system beyond what was exposed for it to live like it has. To be rooted is to be connected to a life source so firmly that you're able to live productively as intended. This okra plant was one wonderful example of being rooted.
We need to be ROOTED and built up IN CHRIST.
Rooted, drawing our very life from CHRIST!
And we do this THROUGH FAITH.
ROOTED in CHRIST.
Our spiritual roots need to be deeply wrapped in Christ, so firmly, so intricately that no spiritual storm will rip us from Him. Even if storms expose some of our roots we can't give up, we have to make our roots grow even deeper, even tighter in Christ. Satan would have us wither and uprooted entirely, but we mustn't allow Satan that victory. Our lives must be ROOTED and built up IN CHRIST.
All through HIS grace, HIS mercy, HIS love! Forever!
(Excerpt- E.J. Waggoner)
Living by Faith.
"As it is written, The just shall live by faith." Ro. 1:17
Christ is "our life." Col. 3:4.
We are "saved by his life." Rom. 5:10.
It is by faith that we receive Christ Jesus, for he dwells in our hearts by faith. Eph. 3:17. Dwelling in our hearts, he is life, for out of the heart are the issues of life. Prov. 4:23.
Now the word comes, "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him; rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith." Col. 2:6,7. As we receive him by faith, and we walk in him as we have received him, we shall "walk by faith, and not by
sight."
Col 2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
Col 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Col 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Rooted. What does it mean to be rooted? Anyone who has worked with gardening and such knows that a plant needs good roots to be healthy. Right now in my waning spring/summer garden (Southwest Florida) I have an okra plant that I put in the ground as a tiny seed back in February- it is now November, almost December. This particular okra plant is still producing the now occasional okra pod and soon it's life span will be spent and produce no more at all. At its prime this plant was producing a lot of pods, and this one plant along with a whole lot of others kept not only my family, but a few others eating fresh okra through the summer. Why am I talking about this one particular okra plant? Because at some point this summer during a particular windy rain storm the plant was laid down on its side, some of its roots exposed. Being well over 7 feet (conservative estimate) tall with many branches, it wasn't going to be possible to simply pull it upright and cover up all those newly exposed roots. I had to leave it and I thought for sure that even after I piled up dirt on the exposed roots that it wasn't going to live much longer. As already stated, it is still living long past mid-summer. It was an odd experience, one I'd never had with okra before, picking okra pods off this horizontal stalk. After a few more storms those roots I'd covered were uncovered again, and it got to the point it was easier to just leave them uncovered and hope whatever root system was still going strong under the ground would keep the okra alive. It kept going strong even as I could see some of its roots above ground. The conclusion that you've already probably come to is, this particular plant must have a really deep, well rooted system beyond what was exposed for it to live like it has. To be rooted is to be connected to a life source so firmly that you're able to live productively as intended. This okra plant was one wonderful example of being rooted.
We need to be ROOTED and built up IN CHRIST.
Rooted, drawing our very life from CHRIST!
And we do this THROUGH FAITH.
ROOTED in CHRIST.
Our spiritual roots need to be deeply wrapped in Christ, so firmly, so intricately that no spiritual storm will rip us from Him. Even if storms expose some of our roots we can't give up, we have to make our roots grow even deeper, even tighter in Christ. Satan would have us wither and uprooted entirely, but we mustn't allow Satan that victory. Our lives must be ROOTED and built up IN CHRIST.
All through HIS grace, HIS mercy, HIS love! Forever!
(Excerpt- E.J. Waggoner)
Living by Faith.
"As it is written, The just shall live by faith." Ro. 1:17
Christ is "our life." Col. 3:4.
We are "saved by his life." Rom. 5:10.
It is by faith that we receive Christ Jesus, for he dwells in our hearts by faith. Eph. 3:17. Dwelling in our hearts, he is life, for out of the heart are the issues of life. Prov. 4:23.
Now the word comes, "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him; rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith." Col. 2:6,7. As we receive him by faith, and we walk in him as we have received him, we shall "walk by faith, and not by
sight."
Col 2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
Col 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.