Giving Up or Fueling Up?

Colossians 1:11 may you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy (ESV)

If there was ever a man aside from our Lord that knew where his strength came from it was Paul. A man of prayer and of that a mighty man of strength. Paul was a man with one foot in heaven and one foot on earth. Living in two realms, he endured hardships in both. He was a man with great responsibility, he was looked up to as co-founder and leader of the early church. The more Paul was looked up to the more he found himself looking up. As for the natural man; his eyes are fixed fast on the things of this world, but for the spiritual man his eyes ought to be fixed on the things above. For one looking up might feel like giving up, but for another looking up is fueling up.

We should not be afraid to pause throughout our day and take an extra minute to seek the one with all power. To look up is to abide in the shadow of the almighty, it is there he will deliver us from the snare of the fowler. Fowler literally meaning the bait-layer. The fowler is deceptive and at first glance is good to look at, a second look could be dangerous and a third look guarantees a sure catch. Believer my question to you is where have you been looking?

Paul would pray for the saints and faithful brethren of Colossae in hopes that they too might find all power and all endurance. He knew this was no right of his own, rather he would give thanks to the Father, who alone qualified us to share in this inheritance. We have been delivered from the domain of darkness. No longer should we fear the way of the fowler, for the light has made known his ways. Not only have we been drawn from but we have been drawn to. What a beautiful exchange that has taken place for the one that would surrender his might to the One with all might. We have been transferred into the kingdom of Christ, who can make the things that are not as though they were. Believer no longer settle for anxious toil and depression when ours is the kingdom of peace and joy.