It is the fall season! I enjoy every season, but I forget
how much I love fall until it gets here! Taking a walk through the fall weather
is amazing: the unexplainable smell, bundling up in sweaters and scarves, the crunchy reddish brown leaves under
your boots, avoiding the soggy green orangey yellow ones, mini puddles reflecting the cloudy grey sky…you know what
I’m talking about!
Entering this month of November, we are reminded of
Thanksgiving. Today I came across a quote by Elisabeth Elliot in her book “Keep
a Quiet Heart” that took my mind to the book of Colossians (quote is at the bottom of the page for those of you who are too curious to wait). As I read the second
chapter, these verses grabbed a hold of my thoughts:
Colossians 2:6-7
“As ye have therefore
received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him,
and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with
thanksgiving.”
Because we have received Christ, we have the responsibility to
live in Him. We are to be rooted and built up in Christ and established in the
faith. But I want us to draw our attention to the last phrase “abounding
therein with thanksgiving.” This phrase is at the end, not to imply less
importance, but to bring to light that this should be a recurring and constant action.
As we are being rooted and built up
in Christ we are to abound in thanksgiving. While we are being established in the faith, our thanks should
never cease.
Jesus is Lord in every season of our lives, and that is
cause enough for a grateful and trusting heart. Do I really believe that He is Lord of all seasons?
“If I can’t give thanks, trust, and worship the Lord in
every ‘season,’ in the face of any set of facts which may touch my life, I am
not really a believer.”
–Elisabeth Elliot
