Heroes
Pastor Jeff Williams // January 28th, 2010
Here some statements/quotes/Scriptures from our Tuesday morning Men’s Bible Study. We take all thoughts and directly relate them to men as husbands, fathers, and employees/employers.:
“Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.” Colossians 2:7 KJV
Firmly rooted means to become stable, be rooted, strengthened with roots and figuratively to be firmly fixed, thoroughly grounded.
The verb suggests stability, nourishment and life derived from contact with Christ.
“BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable) is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly [following their advice, their plans and purposes], nor stands [submissive and inactive] in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down [to relax and rest] where the scornful [and the mockers] gather.
But his delight and desire are in the law of the Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) he habitually meditates (ponders and studies) by day and by night.
And he shall be like a tree firmly planted [and tended] by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not fade or wither; and everything he does shall prosper [and come to maturity].” Psalm 1:1-3 AMP
Built up indicates the placing of one layer upon another; literally means to build upon, erect a superstructure… for the eternal importance of the correct building “code” and the consequences of utilizing “cheap” building materials.
And established in your faith means to make firm or reliable so as to warrant security and inspire confidence.
Men should inspire confidence in their family and co-workers
The message is clear: be established and keep growing.
As result of the fact that we are rooted and are being continually built up and established, we are to add be abounding with thankfulness.
That means you do not grumble, complain and criticize. You cannot have it both ways. To be thankful means to find something in every situation for which you can genuinely be grateful.
Imagine being given a bowl of sand containing tiny particles of iron, and you are told to remove the iron from the sand. You have two choices. You can pull your fingers through the sand, searching for specks of iron but finding very few. Or you can pull a magnet through the sand and watch it attract countless bits of iron.
Like the fingers in the sand, the grumbling heart finds very few mercies. But as the grateful heart moves through life, it finds countless blessings, just as the magnet finds iron.
Of all the choices we make in life, few affect us more powerfully than our choice between gratitude and grumbling.
Grumbling overlooks blessings, but gratitude finds blessings everywhere—even in dry, sandy places!
Jeff
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