For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. (Colossians 2:1-7 ESV)
Walk with the Lord and be rooted in Him and built up through Him.
A root is the system through which a plant gets its nutrients, it’s substance for living.
So the author of Colossians is telling us to be fed and get our substance for living from Christ.
This text made me think of Pando the largest living organism. Pando is a collection of Aspen trees in Utah that share the same root system. They are really one tree or branches off the same root system. Isn’t that exactly how we are to be in the body of Christ? Rooted together in Christ we are all interconnected, and part of one another. We are one, rooted together in Christ.
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