… that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. (Colossians 1:10)
In Colossians 1, the topic is knowing God. As a result, we, according to v.10 will experience three blessings that we have a choice in, and these three are the evidence of our personal relationship with Him.
The first: we will "walk worthy of the Lord." (v.10). This does not mean we earn God's favor, rather, it means to live out of the favor that Jesus earned on our behalf. Having believed in Jesus' finished work on the cross, we are imputed His righteousness and we are freed to live the life He died to give us.
God's way to spirituality is having us raise our sails rather than rowing our boats.
The word that Paul uses for worthy is "axios." We get our word "axis" it, and the greatest axis ever know to man is the cross of Jesus Christ. No greater price tag has ever been placed on us than through the cross of Jesus Christ. This is greatest of all motivations, producing confidence in the believer to live a life of faith and risk. When we are not worrying about earning or maintaining God's acceptance we are freed to be who He has called us tho be.
The second: we will walk in faith in Him and thus "please Him in every way." Hebrews 11:6 reads, "Without faith it is impossible to please God!" Faith is the only human thing that pleases God. Every time Jesus approved or commended people in the gospels, it was because of their faith.
The third: we will be "bearing fruit in every good work." This "fruit" is the fruit of the Spirit: producing actions like goodness, compassion, encouragement, and help in a time of distress. It really isn't our fruit. We merely yield to His expressions of fruit.
This is eternal life, Jesus said in John 17:3, "that they might know you, the only true God."
In his book, Experiencing God, Henry Blackaby wrote, “Many want God to call them to a big assignment. However, they try to bypass the love relationship...the love relationship is why God created you. That is far more important to Him than what you do. So anticipate that God will start working with you and drawing you to an intimate love relationship that is real and personal. When the love relationship is right, God will be free to begin giving you assignments at His initiative. Whenever you do not seem to be receiving assignments from God, focus on the love relationship and stay there until the assignment comes.”
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