Passage for today
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 New International Version
This afternoon during my reading of the New Testament, I came across for the first time the expression, "receive Christ as Lord". It is found in Paul's Epistle to the Colossians, chapter 2 verse 6.
This expression "receive Christ as Lord" forms the basis for the Apostle's discourse in the rest of the chapter. I'd like to post the passage from Colossians 2:6 - 12 NIV, with key words underlined for emphasis, for us to ponder over as a devotional reading.
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.
See to it that no one takes you captive
through hollow and deceptive philosophy
which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world
rather than on Christ.
For in Christ all the fulness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
and in Christ you have been brought to fullness.
He is the head over every power and authority.
In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands.
Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ.
having been buried with him in baptism,
in which you were also raised with him
through your faith in the working of God
who raised him from the dead.
