GROUNDED AND FOUNDED
I have been amazed to discover how much the New Testament exhorts us to stand strong and not waver, to be steadfast, and to hold fast to that which we have learned. As I looked up all these Scriptures, I found 25 different Greek words that are used to instruct us in this godly attribute. I won’t bog you down with them all in this post but let me give you some Scriptures.Ephesians 3:17: “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith that ye being ROOTED and GROUNDED in love . . . “
Colossians 1:23: “If ye CONTINUE in the faith, GROUNDED and SETTLED (the word means FOUNDED on a foundation of truth), and BE NOT MOVED AWAY from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard . . .” Do you notice four different exhortations in this Scripture?
Colossians 2:7: “ROOTED and built up in him, and ESTABLISHED in the faith, as ye have been taught.”
God wants us to be rooted and grounded in His truth. He wants our children to be rooted and grounded. How do we make this happen. I notice the answer in Colossians 2:7: “as ye have been taught.” The only way we are grounded is as the Word of God gets into us. Yes, did you notice I said, “INTO us”?
And we’ve got to get it into our children. That doesn’t happen by taking them to church or Sunday School once a week. We must diligently get it into them day by day (little by little and precept upon precept). They can’t take it in all at once, but every day we hound and pound the wonderful truths of the Word into their souls. This is what makes them grounded and founded. Yes, the Word must be pounded and hounded into them.
The word “hound” means to “relentlessly pursue and the word “pound” means “to strike repeatedly.”
So now you’ve got the secret, dear mothers. For your children to be grounded and founded in the truths of God’s word, they must be hounded and pounded each new day! Then they’ll have the testimony of the young men in 1 John 2:14: “I have written unto you young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.”
Be blessed today,
Nancy Campbell
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