ENCOURAGE - EQUIP - EMPOWER
IT STARTS HERE.
“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
This week Susan Veenema and Melanie Wilson take a look at the verses above and help us answer how we are built up in God.
Upon reading Jesus’s question to the disciples in Matthew 16:15, “But who do you say I am?”, the response seems obvious. Peter declares in verse 16, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” and Jesus is pleased. For us, over 2,000 years later this declaration feels anticlimactic since we hold the whole story in our hands. However, the importance of who Jesus is and how that impacts our daily life can be easy to miss. This is true for Peter just a few verses further in the text and can be for us today as well. Until we understand who He is, we cannot truly understand what his death and resurrection mean for us.
Are you asking questions about Christianity? Or are there questions others ask you and you cannot find the right words? Questions like “If God is so great, why does he allow bad things to happen?” Or maybe it’s the hypocrisy you find in some Christian followers. Or maybe you’re logical, like me and question the reality of what is written in the Bible and search for the evidence. I mean, I’d personally like to see more water turned into wine!
A little over six years ago, I was blessed with delivering two healthy identical twin boys. Unfortunately, a few days later, my son Dylan was admitted to the NICU for issues with breathing and blood sugar levels. During that time as I was alone in my hospital room with my other son Kyle, he became a little fussy. I knew I was unable to stand up to rock and soothe him as my C-section incision was still tender.
