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Colossians 2:7
7 Rooted [rhizoo] and [kai] built up [epoikodomeo] in [en] him, [autos] and [kai] stablished [bebaioo] in [en] the faith, [pistis] as [kathos] ye have been taught, [didasko] abounding [perisseuo] therein [en] [autos] with [en] thanksgiving. [eucharistia] KJV-Interlinear
7 having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude. NASB
As you learn doctrine, the principles of spiritual understanding root themselves deep inside of your soul. More doctrine, more application, and more time, all three develop spiritual muscle, which in turn ingrains spiritual knowledge, understanding, and wisdom inside of your soul.
Often times we call this the result of spiritual growth, or spiritual production. This is the creation or fabrication of spiritual resources within your life.
And this is said to be built up in Him, in Christ, who is the living source of Bible doctrine, or truth, which is available to each and every one of us through the written word.
And all of this, gives us faith, or the reliance in life on something that we cannot see or even detect, or measure. We can only believe. And based on faith alone, we look to God for a phenomenal future in heaven, with overwhelming gratitude.
But this overwhelming gratitude is a mirror of the overwhelming provision which God gives to us, or will give to us in eternity.
The word for abounding, ‘perisseuo,’ means super-abound, abundance, excess. And when you match it to eternity, then Gods provision is so vast, that you could never use, or use up, his provision in all of eternity. And that is a lot.
Even in this life, where we seem to be living through an age of narcissism. As people have become so consumed with themselves, with their own desires, with their own ego’s, with their own wants, with their own beliefs, with their own opinions, to the exclusion of anything and anyone else. And, ignoring all of the repercussions.
And yet with all of the worldly things that drive this attitude, which results in absolutely nothing for ones life, there is still the simply written word, the scriptures, with their hidden code, as it were, undiscoverable by any human means, but hold the key to riches and wealth so vast that this universe cannot contain it all.
And people miss it all because of their fixation on their carnal lifestyles and greed, due to their indifference toward truth.
The bulk of the world has been anti-God for generations. The bulk of the world has been in poverty for generations. The bulk of the world pursues religions, not to honor God, but as a means to an end, which is their selfish desires of gratification of sin related pursuits.
Christianity honors God through Christ, and as a result of mindful obedience to His Word, God supplies spiritually mature believers with blessings so vast, you will never be able to measure them all.
