Now that you have the gift of Jesus, what are you going to do with that gift? Paul, the missionary apostle, who loved to reach new people for Christ, equally loved seeing those who were already believers become people with a progressively more muscular faith in Jesus. Paul’s goal was never simply the conversion of the unbeliever, but also the training of the believer until they were fully-developing followers of Jesus Christ. And what was the evidence that such faith-development was indeed occuring? Just one thing: gratitude to God! “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” (Colossians 2:6-7, NIV). Our reading for Saturday, October 11, is Jeremiah 7:1 - 8:22, Psalm 118:1-4, Proverbs 27:5-6 and Colossians 2:6-23.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 07:05:05 +0000