The Gospel Is Bearing
Fruit
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when
we pray for you,
because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the
love you have for all God’s people— the faith and love that spring from the
hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the
true message of the gospel that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is
bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world—just as it has been doing
among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace. You
learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant,
who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, and who also told us of your love in
the Spirit.
For
this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for
you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through
all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a
life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every
good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power
according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and
patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to
share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has
rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the
Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:3-14
In real estate the phrase is location, location, location. In
our world of faith, that is still true. Are we in the right location to have a
relationship with Jesus? Our location spiritually is critical to us, in this
life and eternally. We do have a new location because we are in Christ. We need
to be in the location where His will is our will, and His ways are our ways. We
need to be in the location of making the critical decision to remain in His
location, at all times, no matter what.
The subjects of the kingdom should
display the manners of the court.
Our Daily Bread –