As you have therefore received Christ Jesus as Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Colossians 2:6-7



While most firmly grasp the truth "The sinner is justified by faith" (Gal 2.16), they rarely find a place for the larger truth, "The just shall live by faith" (Rom 1.17). They have not understood what a perfect Saviour Jesus is, and how He will each day do for the sinner just as much as He did the first day he came to Him. They do not know that the life of grace is always and only the life of faith, and that in relationship to Jesus the one daily and unceasing duty of the disciple in to believe, because believing is the one channel through which divine grace and strength flow out into the heart of His people.



The old nature of the believer remains evil and sinful to the last; it is only as he daily comes, empty and helpless, to his Saviour to receive His life and strength, that he can bring forth fruits of righteousness to the glory of God.



(A. Murray, 'Abiding in Christ', p. 35).