June 26, 2020 THAT WE MIGHT BE FILLED
Colossians 1:9-12 “For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and ask that you may be filled with the knowledge in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.”
There are times when we read a certain scriptures, we may feel that what we read is just too good to be true. Such it is with the verses above. The message of the gospel is radical. If and when we find ourselves living a ‘ho-hum’ life, a life void of passion and pure excitement and joy, something is missing. I understand that life has its routines and every day is not a mountain-top experience, but even in the routines of life, even in the difficult times, God wants us to experience His power, His joy, and His wisdom. Perhaps our demise, or the thing that causes us to not experience all that God has for us is that we lose sight of, or not even know that we have been joined to God; being joined to Him means that we get to share His life. Another potential stumbling block for us is that we get focused on this temporal life and we form our views and allow our emotions and thoughts, the tone of our lives, to be determined by what goes on around us-the ways of the world. The prayer Paul prayed above for the believers in Colossae is also a prayer for us, and what an awesome prayer it is; the same heart God had for the early believers is the same heart He has for us today. It is possible, and it is God’s will that we “be filled with the knowledge in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.” We do not have to live not knowing-not knowing God and His power and wisdom; and we do not have to be de-motivated by questions and doubts about life and why things happen as they do. We may not fully understand everything in the natural or physical realm, but we can be filled with knowledge in spiritual wisdom, and we can have understanding in the spiritual-it is difficult or impossible to explain this, but it can nonetheless be experienced. When we are filled in this manner, then “we can walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work.” Also, our knowledge of God can be increasing, and we can be strengthened with all power; we do not have to live in spiritual weakness and with a lack of zeal. We can attain to “all steadfastness and patience”-we do not have to be impatient and we can be steadfast-not driven about with circumstances, not wavering. As we experience these realities and these truths, we will be filled with joy and we will give thanks to our Father who makes all these things possible. It is good news indeed that we do not have to live according to the standards and the ways of the world; we have been made new and we can now live life as an overcomer and experience the life of God. I pray that we do not just read these and other scriptures just as good ideas and suggestions, but we allow the words we read to penetrate the core of our being, to see that they are life and they are for us personally-they are not just theory, and they are not out of our reach; they are the doorways that lead to life.
1 John 5:12 “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.”
Blessings,
Buddy
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