If you have lived in one place for a long period of time, it is difficult to move to a new location, and start over again. It was difficult for my family and I, to move to a new pastorate, after being with a church for almost eleven years.
In our text, the Apostle Paul shares with the Christians at Colossae, concerning their response to the reconciling work of Jesus Christ. The Gospel is the precious message of the work of Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. The Christians at Colossae could confidently say, that they had allowed Jesus to reconcile them to Himself. They had (through their faith) stayed steadfast to their commitment to the hope of the Gospel. They had, (as we can call it) "a settled faith." They were not going to let anything cause them to "move away" from the hope they held so dear.
As Christians today; is this the way it is with us? Do we have a "settled", "steadfast" faith, in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? Does it show in the way we live? Does our worship reflect this "settle faith" in the hope we have in Christ?
The world lures us, in so many ways, and causes us to "move away." Maybe not all at once, but little by little, we drift away from what we hold dear in Christ. We can, and do, major in minor things, the enemy hopes we will pursue. But when this world is gone, and all the things we used to hold dear in Christ is forsaken; what will be able to hope in then?
Let's stay home with Jesus, instead of trying to "Move Away! GP
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