The young church in Colossae endured difficult days under the teaching of influential figures who argued that they needed more than Jesus, in other words, Jesus wasn’t enough to secure them. The Apostle Paul wrote to set the record straight “in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness.” If they had Jesus, they had it all. What they needed was not more than Jesus, but to keep on in Jesus, so, in what is our verse for the year Paul urged them “just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him…” Believers are united to Christ by the faith that receives him as a bride receives a groom, the way on in the Christian life is to go deeper into relationship with Jesus, to know, love and enjoy him who is the sufficient Saviour and head over all things. What a blessing it would be to come to the end of the year more rooted, more assured in Jesus, strengthened in the faith, overflowing with thanks for his amazing grace. Let us continue in him…