Col 2: 6-7

Do you remember the moment you put your trust in Jesus?

Were you strong, proud, and self-sufficient?

Or were you weak, desperate, and hungry?

“So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him”

Col 2:6

Somewhere along the line we forget how feeble we are without Jesus and begin to think that we are pretty good and that we “have it together”. We start to pull away from the very dependency that brought us to Him and begin to “walk on our own”.

There are so many preachers telling us how we should live, books telling us what we need to know and organizations telling us what we should be doing … and quickly we forget His presence and become distracted from our first love.

“Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first.”

Rev 2:4–5

Shouldn’t Christianity be about just one thing? Jesus?

How complicated we have made it all.

Wouldn’t it be refreshing to strip it all back and simply spend time with our first love again? Like we did at first, in those early days? Desperate for Him?

Paul, in Colossians 2, teaches us to remember the condition we were in when we first came to Jesus … and to live in that same condition of weakness and dependence upon Him.

“So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness”

Col 2:6–7

We aren’t strong or impressive because we become strong … we are strong because we have a strong Jesus. When we are rooted in Him, built up in Him, and strengthened in our faith in Him the result is “overflowing thankfulness”.

Simply beautiful isn’t it?

You may have been a Christian for 5 minutes or 50 years, but when it all fades away our lives should function the same - dependent on Him as our Lord.

Prayer:

Lord, I have become distracted by many things, good things, but distracted nonetheless. Please help me to appreciate these good things in the context of your all-sufficient life. You are all I need and you are my strength.

I receive your invitation to continue my life in you.

Amen