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Staying On Course
Scripture Reading...Colossians 2:6-8
The passengers were flying along at thirty-five thousand
feet when the captain came on the intercom, "I have good
news for you, and I have some bad news. First the bad news:
I regret to inform you that we are lost. And now for the good
news: we are making excellent time."
Similarly, Paul says that once we have begun our spiritual
odyssey, we need to beware of being taken off course. The
words, translated "see to it" (vs.8) actually mean "beware,"
or "keep your wits about you." There are people who can
"take you captive." Kidnap would be the word today, or hijack.
In either case, you start off the way you want to go and finish
up where you don't want to be. When people try to hijack your
faith, they will divert your attention from what is right and good
and true. They will pervert the gospel by putting other things
in its place. Rather than base all spiritual reality and life itself
on Christ, they will build all kinds of highly intriguing, wonderfully
attractive structures that are, at their core, empty and destructive.
Before you know it, Christ is no longer the real authority in your
life.
Has somebody hijacked your faith? Are you continuing in the
faith as you began? Are you aware of the spiritual dangers
that come your way? Are you getting off track? It needn't
happen. When faith hijackers turn up, recognize them, resist
them, and stand fast in the truth you have learned in Christ.
Let's pray together. Dear heavenly Father, please help me to be
on the alert for deceptive and hollow teachings and always look
to you to keep me on a straight course. Amen