Live As Called, in Faith and Truth

Colossians 2:6-10    
6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.   8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

We are to live in a worthy way that fits our calling, founded on our Rock and building each day on His word and work in us through our responses that honor Him.  We truly are called to be holy because He is.  How?  By building on the faith given through His word by His Spirit through His work and ours.  What we must therefore beware of are misleading teachings that make us feel good or satisfy our desires as the corrupt creation around us calls us to believe and follow.  We instead are to overflow in our solid faith built on the truth in Christ as we follow Him.  Many would have us believe God’s wants come from our wants, but we are called to desire His will to become the desires of our hearts.  If we are Christ centered instead of self centered, we yield to His will and work because He is the Almighty Lord God come as a man.  Jesus Christ is Lord and God, and we find completion only in the Almighty Sovereign, not in our own petty and temporal pursuits which just fade into dust and blow away as we enter into His eternal kingdom.  He called us in His righteousness and for His good pleasure; we should pursue the things worthy of our calling of such grace.