Rooted for Growth, Grounded for Building Up
God’s intention is to sow His life as a seed into man, to grow in man, and to build His many people into a corporate expression of Himself. The Bible takes this course, from man in the garden of Eden 
to New Jerusalem.
Colossians 2:6-7 is a little summary of this. “As therefore you have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in Him, having been rooted and being built up in Him, and being established in the faith even as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.”
If we have received Christ Jesus as our Lord, then He lives in us and we should walk (have our daily living) in Him (Gal. 2:20). This is possible because we have been rooted in Him (as portrayed by the plant life in recent posts) and, by His life, we are being built together with other believers in Him. For this we abound in thanksgiving.
The parallel verse is Ephesians 3:17, “That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love…” In 3:16 Paul prayed that we would be strengthened into our inner man, our regenerated spirit. This affords Christ the way to make His home in our hearts.
When he makes His home in us we are rooted in Him to absorb Him as our life supply for growth. We are also grounded in Him to be built up with others until we reach New Jerusalem. This journey from plant life to building up is the path laid forth in the Bible.
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Posted by Don on February 14, 2022
