SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/4/2017
11:11 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Overflowing
with Gratitude
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Colossians
2:7b
Message of the
verse: “overflowing with gratitude.”
We are looking at the last of the four participles that
are in verse seven “perisseuonites” (‘overflowing.’) MacArthur writes that it “is the only one in
the active voice. It is a response to
the other three. Believers who are
firmly rooted in Christ, being built up in Him, and established in their faith,
will overflow with gratitude to God. ‘Through
Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to His name’ (Heb.
13:15). A grateful heart for all God has
given us in Christ will further strengthen our grip on the truth.”
There is a circle as God gives us blessings and then we
are to give praise and adoration to God for the blessings that He gives to us. As we take in truth from the Word of God, we
as believers get a strong mind. As we
live out all of those truths, then we receive full assurance that Christ is the
One that He claims to be. This gives us
assurance and so we can appropriate those riches that are His legacy to
believers, the ones who walk in Him. And
as they walk in Him, then they will grow in Him and then become established in
their faith, and as a result, they will give praise to God.
This finishes u the chapter that we have been following
from John MacArthur’s commentary “Paul’s Love for the Church,” and in our next
SD on Colossians we will follow “Philosophy or Christ” as we look at Colossians
2:8-10. We must remember that the things
that Paul is writing have to do with the issues that are going on in the
Colossian Church as they do not believe that Christ alone is enough for
salvation.
3/4/2017 11:24 PM
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