Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness. Colossians 2:7 (NLT)
When this verse came to my inbox the other day I thought; "Well here may be the Body of Christ's problem!" Do we let our roots grow deep into Christ? Are we doing what it takes to get rooted in Christ? Are we seeking that deep water source which is in Christ? I know in the real world that when the heat hits plants, even mature trees that are not rooted into a DEEP SOURCE of water will die. I wonder about us as the Body of Christ? Do we let our lives be built on him? Do we look for that good foundation that is Christ? Again, as we are have temperatures in the mid low thirties I have heard of our local community college's contractor continuing to pour the foundation for a new building on campus; I am not sure this is good planning but I am not in the concrete business nor the building business. I am in the building the Family of God business and I wonder about our foundations?
Doing these two things, rooting him Christ and Building on Christ, will allow our faith to grow strong in the truth we were taught, this leads to another question, which is "What truths have we been taught." Have we been taught G*D'S TRUTH or have we been taught some one's interpretation of G*d's Truth? Personally, I think it is likely a 50/50 thing. Half of what we were taught is G*D'S TRUTH and the other half is interpretation of G*d's Truth. I know that from time to time as a pastor I will have to plead Guilty to the latter and be held accountable for not doing the former. Again, I wonder. I wonder if we need to do a better job of having a mindset like the people of Berea (Acts 17:11)?
The last thing the verse says is "we will overflow with thanksgiving" if we are rooted and built. So; I wonder are we overflowing with thanksgiving? If not we need to work on our rooting and building site!
