Yesterday I went to a bookstore for a little while, just wandering around. I looked at all the books they had on the shelves, tons of them. I love to read, and every time I go to a bookstore (or a record store, or a video store, you name it) I get this strong, capitalistic desire to purchase something. But yesterday, as I was beginning my Pavlovian drool, I realized something. God has been changing the way I look at my life in the last few days, and all that STUFF just didn’t seem to matter as much any more.
Colossians 2:6-7 says “And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.”
This shows us how a relationship with Jesus is more than just knowing Him as Savior. That is where the relationship starts, but there is so much more. As we let our roots grow into Him and build our lives on Him, we begin to see life the way He sees it. We begin to drift away from the temporary, the material and start to prioritize the eternal. This is not to say I have arrived, but I’m beginning to take my own faith to a place that transcends ordinary life into the abundant (one unpurchased book at a time).
Colossians 2:6-7 says “And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.”
This shows us how a relationship with Jesus is more than just knowing Him as Savior. That is where the relationship starts, but there is so much more. As we let our roots grow into Him and build our lives on Him, we begin to see life the way He sees it. We begin to drift away from the temporary, the material and start to prioritize the eternal. This is not to say I have arrived, but I’m beginning to take my own faith to a place that transcends ordinary life into the abundant (one unpurchased book at a time).
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