Rooted in Him

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Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 311, Rooted in Him.

Colossians 2, verses 6 and 7. Let this land:

"Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving."

Paul writes this with an urgency that reaches across centuries. He is not introducing something new — he is reminding. Reminding you of how everything began.

How did you receive Christ? It was not an achievement. It was not something you earned. It was a 'yes' — a simple act of trust in what He had already done. You did not force the door open. You walked through an open invitation. And Paul says: that is exactly how you keep going. The same faith that opened the door is the faith that holds you for every step of the journey. Don't change the method. Keep trusting.

"Walk in him." Not visiting. Not dropping by occasionally. Walking — living inside Him, day after day. The Christian life is not stepping into Christ and then carrying on alone, as if salvation were a ticket and everything after that were your problem. No. Every morning you wake up, you wake up inside Him. Every decision you face, you face it inside Him. Every conversation, every crossroads, every moment you feel the weight of your own weakness — all of it is territory where He wants to be present. That is what it means to walk in Him.

And Paul goes deeper. He talks about roots. "Rooted in him." Roots are invisible on the surface. You look at a tree and you see the branches, the leaves, the fruit — but the battle is happening underground. It is the roots that decide whether the tree stands or falls when the wind comes. Being rooted in Christ means that when the storm arrives — and it will arrive — something deeper than the moment is holding you steady. Not your strength. Where you are planted.

And He does not only plant. He also builds. "Built up in him." Every Word you read is laying another layer of foundation. Every prayer you actually live — not just recite — is raising a wall. Every trial you walk through with Him, without running, without pretending it isn't hard — every one of those adds something solid beneath your life. God does not abandon His work. He is still building.

And the mark of all of this — the visible sign of a life rooted and built up in Christ — is not perfection. Paul doesn't say perfection. He says thanksgiving that overflows. A soul established in Him begins to see grace in places it used to overlook. In small things. In ordinary things. In the quiet of an ordinary Tuesday. And that recognition cannot stay hidden inside — it spills over.

So today, before breakfast, I want to invite you to do one thing. Just one. Take a piece of paper — or your phone — and write down three concrete things you are grateful to Christ for today. Not vague. Concrete. And then say them to Him out loud. Let your day begin with overflow. Because that is what a rooted life produces — real gratitude, spoken with a voice, offered back to Him.

Stay close to God. Pray — then act. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend.