There’s Just One More Thing

[405 words] “Oh, there’s just one more thing…” There are few things more frustrating than thinking that everything is understood and then there is an addition to the instructions. In the book of Colossians, Paul is addressing a people who have been told, “you have Christ and that’s great…oh yeah, but there’s one more thing you need….” What Paul writes to them is that if they have Jesus, they have it all they need to be fully assured in the faith! They don’t need anything else except to cling to Jesus. Note Colossians 2:6-10 and what he says about our assurance: We Have Received Christ Jesus (v. 6). We are Christians. We have received “the seed which is the word of God” (Mark 4:14-ff). We have obeyed the gospel. We can rest in the fact that receiving the grace of God by an obedient faith makes us His children (Rom….