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Colossians 2:6
6 As [hos] ye have [paralambano] therefore [oun] received [paralambano] Christ [Christos] Jesus [Iesous] the Lord, [kurios] so walk ye [peripateo] in [en] him: [autos] KJV-Interlinear
6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, NASB
And so you are to knit together a meaningful and purposeful life together by means of studying the scriptures on a daily basis. Doctrine is the food for the soul and food is consumed over and over, again and again, day after day, throughout your entire life.
Do you know of anyone who can eat only occasionally, or perhaps once in their lifetime, or perhaps never eat during their life? Anyone who does not pursue a decent diet will inevitably end up on their sick or death bed.
And Bible doctrine is the only source of foods for the soul that are healthy and good for you and taste good too. Anything else is bad for you, even poisonous.
And since you are to study and grow up, you are also to live your day to day life as Christ expects you to live it.
The full circle of wisdom includes the learning, the understanding, the believing, and the application of the principles and mandates of doctrine to your daily life. This is called faith with works, in James. The ‘works’ refer to the daily application of doctrine to your life.
No one can simply have the information in their minds and never use it, and then expect good results. That would be unreasonable.
In order to have a spiritually productive life, you must combine what you learn, with your daily life, and be consistent between the two.
And this is generally where most folks mess up in their spiritual lives. They are inconsistent in the spiritual functions of their life.
They do not study regularly. They do not confess their sins to God the Father regularly (a must since you have to be in fellowship before any aspects of your spiritual life will function properly). They do not pray regularly.
They do not apply Gods mandates (daily study, study support, charity support, fundamental honesty, objectivity, etc.), to their life (disobedience in effect in its many, many, many subtle forms). They have unreasonable expectations from life. Rather than utilizing the principles of doctrine to judge and gauge their own life, they have a tendency of judging others, of which judgment they have no right. Hasn’t anyone ever pointed their finger at you and said, ‘You better re-read your Bible!’
In order to have a successful spiritual life, you have to look inside of yourself and apply Gods standards and expectations to your own life. And certainly you have to learn and understand Gods plan for your own life as well as Gods plan for humanity and history in general, and adjust your life to God.
