Weekly Devo

  "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom,..." Col. 3:16 If you take your child to Sunday morning worship only they get 52 hours a year of church interaction, 26 hours passive listening to the bible. If you go to class and worship they receive 52 hours of passive listening. If you go twice Sunday they get 78 hours of passive bible listening. If you go on Wednesday nights too they get 130 hours a year  of passive bible listening. Out of the 208 hours, never missed, year of attendance they only get 130 passive listening hours of which they forget 90% of what's taught in five days.   Compare that to the 1,280 passive listening hours they get in school, 960 hours a year doing h/w and extras, and finally 2,912 hours for weekends and breaks spent enjoying worldly things. 5,152 hours spent not focused on God in a year compared to 130 passive hours of listen to God's word. What's wrong with this picture?   Then in four years they get 20,

Col. 2:1-10 There are three strong statements that let us know all we need is the word. We are to attain “to all the riches of the full assurance of understanding” . ( Col. 2:2-3 ) That is awesome! Not only can we understand but we can have full assurance that we understand. There are riches in the understanding of God’s word. Spiritual riches that come from the knowledge of Christ. In Him are all the treasures of knowledge and wisdom.   The word goes on to say “ as you have been taught ”. ( Col. 2:7 ) We are to walk in Christ. ( Col. 2:6; 1 John 2:6 ) Being “ rooted and built up ” in Christ and established in the faith. As we are taught. We are taught by the word. We can know how be established in faith, rooted, and be built up in Christ. We know by the word of God.   We are firm in our faith because of the truth that Christ brought. Truth has taught us all we need to know that pertain to life and godliness. ( John 1:17;2 Pet. 1:3 )    Do we need to philosophies of the world?

Col. 2:6-8                   We often seek the wisdom of the world. Not that we really mean too, it’s just the prominent concept out there. Even the phrase “common sense” is based on the philosophy of the world. That same “common sense” would say don’t give to a thief. Christianity says just the opposite. (Matt. 25:34-40; Luke 10:30-37)       It is so easy to do to follow the world. We are taught 8 hours a day for 5 days a week for 12-13 years the philosophy of the world, traditions of men, and basic principles of the world. That doesn’t include sports, clubs, social events, friends, family, T.V., radio etc. Let’s look at the math for a minute. We spend 4,032 hours of our growing life, only counting school, learning about man’s ways and man’s teachings. While, if you only went to and studied at church every Sunday and Wednesday, 2,496 hours are spent learning about God’s way.  Now as we get older those two numbers just get farther and farther apart.       Paul makes it