Overflowing with Gratitude (Col. 2:7b)

 

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 up 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 of 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.

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