Take Time to Absorb the Riches of Christ in whom we’re Rooted to Grow and be Built up

Everything we need is in the all-inclusive Christ as the soil into whom we are rooted; we simply need to take time to enjoy the Lord and absorb Christ with His riches into us so that we may be full in Him in our experience today.

Amen, Lord Jesus, we open to You today. We come to enjoy You. We want to take time to absorb Your riches today! Amen!

This week we have been enjoying and praying over Colossians chapters 1 and 2 to see how we can enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the good land – our allotted portion.

God the Father has qualified us, the believers in Christ, for a share of the allotted portion of the all-inclusive Christ. Christ is the preeminent and all-inclusive One, and He has been allotted to each one of us believers in Christ for our enjoyment.

God didn’t give us a physical portion of a land; He has given each one of us a portion of Christ for our enjoyment.

God called us and saved us to bring us into the enjoyment of the all-inclusive Christ. This Christ is typified in the Old Testament by the good land flowing with milk and honey. Wow, this land flows with milk and honey; it is rich, vast, and immense!

Our all-inclusive Christ is the life-giving Spirit today for us to enjoy, partake of, and experience in our daily living.

As long as we are in the light today, remaining in the Lord’s light throughout our daily living, we enjoy an allotted portion of the all-inclusive Christ.

We eat the Lord in His word, eating Him and partaking of Him in all His riches by exercising our spirit.

His words are sweet to our taste. We long for the guileless milk of the word. We can partake of the Lord’s sweetest love and richest grace by coming to His word with a prayerful attitude and spirit.

As we partake of His riches, He constitutes us with Himself, and we have milk and honey under our tongue; we are ready to dispense something of the riches of Christ to others also.

May we be those who enjoy the Lord day by day! May we walk in Christ as our living land, and may we see that we have been rooted in Him so that we may grow in Him with the elements that we absorb from Him as the rich soil!

Amen, in this soil, the all-inclusive Christ, is everything we need. As long as we simply exercise our spirit to come to Him in His word and be under the Lord’s speaking, we partake of His death, His resurrection, His victory, His wiping out of the ordinances, and His fullness.

It’s all in the soil; we can simply take time to absorb Christ so that we may grow in Him and with Him. Praise the Lord!

As those Rooted in Christ as the Rich Soil, we need to Absorb His Riches into our Being

Colossians 2:7 tells us that we are rooted in Christ; on the one hand, Christ is allotted to us as our portion with the saints in the light (vv. 12-13), and on the other hand, we are rooted in Christ.

This tells us that we’re like plants, living organisms. We have been rooted in Christ, our soil, our earth, so that we may absorb all His riches as nourishment.

Through our faith in Christ and baptism into Christ, we have been planted into Christ to grow with Christ and in Christ.

He has gone through a process and was consummated to be the all-inclusive, life-giving, compound Spirit to meet our every need, and He has been installed in our spirit.

On our side, we have been planted into Christ, rooted in Christ as the rich soil, and now we need to absorb His riches into our being.

These riches will become the element and substance with which we grow and are built up. We have been rooted in Christ so that we may absorb Christ with all His riches for our growth in life and building up.

This rooting has already been completed; we now need to daily absorb the riches of Christ. As we absorb the riches of Christ, we grow in life and are built up for the building up of the Body of Christ.

Both our growth and our building up are in Christ; these are organic matters, depending on our taking time to absorb Christ.

We may know that Christ is all-inclusive and we may rejoice to see that we have been rooted in Christ as the rich soil, but this is not enough; we need to take time to absorb His riches into our being.

For this, we need to make sure that nothing and no one distracts us from Christ. Some come with philosophies and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, but not according to Christ (v. 8).

We need to reject such philosophies and traditions, even the elements of the world; they may not be evil or vile, but they are not according to Christ. We need to simply focus on Christ.

In Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

We have been rooted in Christ as the rich soil, and as we partake of His fullness, the expression of God’s riches, we are made full in Him (vv. 9-10)! We just need to partake of His riches, taking time to absorb His riches into our being. As we do this, we are made full in Christ and we lack not one thing in Him.

In Him, as we absorb His riches, we are circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ (v. 11).

Our flesh is put to death when we absorb the riches of Christ.

As we absorb His riches, we are buried together with Christ in baptism, and we are also raised together with Him through the faith of the operation of God, who raised Him from the dead (v. 12).

Thank the Lord, in this rich soil in which we are rooted, there’s the death of Christ, being buried with Christ, and being raised with Christ. Even more, we are made alive together with Christ, having been forgiven all our offenses (v. 13).

And all the ordinances are wiped out; everything that is against us, being an ordinance condemning and separating us from others, has been nailed to the cross, and we now have peace.

As we absorb His riches, even the rulers and authorities in the heavenlies, the evil spirits, are stripped off, and the Lord triumphs over them in the cross.

Everything we need is in the rich soil, the all-inclusive Christ, into which we are rooted; as those rooted in Christ, we need to absorb His riches today.

Lord Jesus, cause us to see that we have been rooted in Christ as the rich soil to absorb His riches in spirit! Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit today to absorb more of Your riches so that we may grow with the growth of God and be built up as the Body of Christ. We open to You, Lord, and we come to You with a prayerful spirit to touch You in Your word. Oh, what a rich, abundant Christ we have! Amen, Lord, in You dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and as we absorb Your riches, we are made full in Christ! Hallelujah, in Christ we were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ! Praise the Lord, in Christ we are buried together with Him in baptism, and we were also raised together with Him through the faith of the operation of God! Amen, Lord, thank You for the riches of this bountiful soil in which we’re rooted. As we absorb Your riches, we are raised with Christ, we are made alive with Him, all the ordinances are wiped out, and the rulers and authorities are stripped off! Praise the Lord!

Take Time to Absorb the Riches of Christ as the Soil to Grow and be Built Up

May the Lord grant us to see that we have been rooted in Christ as the rich soil, and it is our privilege, duty, and responsibility to take time to absorb the riches of Christ as the soil so that we may grow in life with the growth of God and be built up as the Body of Christ.

We must take time to enjoy the Lord. We must take time to absorb the riches of Christ day by day.

He is the all-inclusive land, and all the elements of Christ as the rich soil can be absorbed into us for us to be made full in Him in our experience (Col. 2:10; 4:2).

This is something we all need to experience and practice day by day. Absorbing the riches of Christ is not a quick matter; it does not happen overnight.

If we want to absorb the riches of Christ as the soil, we need to have tender, new roots (2 Cor. 4:16).

Just as a plant, as it grows, sends new roots into the soil to both be stable and to absorb the nutrients to grow, so we need to do as those rooted in Christ.

The roots are the unseen growth of a plant. They are not visible on the surface; however, for a plant to be healthy, it needs to have a strong root system.

On the one hand, the roots act as a stabiliser, anchoring the plant against the weather and the wind. On the other hand, the roots absorb the moisture and the nutrients in the soil for the plant to grow.

If you are a gardener, you know that the root system needs to be very good in order for a plant to grow; the roots are many, even hair-style roots, for the plant seeks to absorb more nutrients.

As those rooted in Christ as the rich soil, we need to take time to absorb the riches of Christ in the soil.

We need to forget about our situation, our condition, our failures, and our weaknesses, and simply take time to absorb the Lord (Luke 8:13; Matt. 14:22-23; 6:6; Col. 2:7a, 19).

Our situation and condition change, like the weather; it is untrustworthy and we cannot send roots in our condition or in the environment.

We simply need to set aside time every day to absorb the riches of Christ. As we take time to absorb Christ, we grow with the growth of God in us for the building up of the Body of Christ.

Christ does not need to grow in Himself, for He is perfect and complete; however, He needs to grow in us. There’s much room for growth in us.

Just as a tree absorbs nourishing elements from the soil through its roots, so we believers in Christ should absorb the riches of Christ into our inner, spiritual being.

As we spend time with the Lord in His word, taking time to be with Him and enjoy Him, we absorb the riches of Christ.

This causes us to be rooted and grounded, even to be stable and unshakable. Furthermore, this leads to growth in life and being built up in Christ.

In doing the daily things, we need to send roots deep down into Christ to absorb His riches.

When we wake up in the morning, we need to learn to open to the Lord and turn our heart to Him, even to give Him the first place in the morning by calling on His name.

As we call on the name of the Lord, we send roots to absorb the riches of Christ.

We need to have a time set aside to enjoy the Lord; ten minutes is a good time, but thirty minutes is even better, for it allows us to open to Him more and absorb more of His riches.

We need to have new, tender, fresh roots in the Lord day by day. We do this by not rushing our time with the Lord but taking time to absorb the riches of Christ.

We need to pray to consecrate to Him afresh, even to open to Him anew. We may even tell the Lord that we want to send new roots in Him every day, and we want our roots to be tender so that we may absorb His riches.

May we never let our roots be old; old roots cannot absorb many riches. Oh Lord! In our personal life with the Lord, as we do this and that, we need to send new roots into Him to absorb Him.

We may have a meal or a snack, and we just open to Him and take Him as the reality of that meal.

We may travel to work, and we can just tell the Lord that we are in Him as we do this.

As those rooted in Christ, we need to not rush our time with Him but open to Him from within to absorb the riches of Christ day by day, even many times throughout the day.

As the Lord shines on us, He shows us many rocks that are hidden in our heart, such as our hidden desires, our selfish ambition, and our anxieties; as He exposes these, we confess and open to Him.

May we offer Him many simple prayers, thanking Him for everything and in all things. We need to offer simple, genuine prayers to the Lord.

As we send fresh new roots into Christ, we absorb His riches, and we grow with the growth of God and are built up in the Body.

As the Lord said in Matthew 6, when we contact Him, we need to go into our private room and contact our Father who is in secret, and our Father who sees in secret will repay us.

We should never expose our roots nor do things for others to see. We should not let others know how much time we spend with the Lord and we should not expose our tender, new roots to others, for everything that is exposed, will also be lost. Oh Lord!

May we all seek to have many times during the day to spend with the Lord and behold Him to be infused with Him (2 Cor. 3:18).

As we absorb the riches of Christ through spending time with the Lord in prayer, the element of God is wrought into us and stored up in us, and we are constituted with Him. There will be a growth in life, for the element of God will increase in us.

Even more, we will be built up with the saints, and when we meet them, we will have something to share with them of the riches of Christ we have enjoyed, absorbed, and assimilated.

Lord Jesus, we want our consecration to be fresh and renewed day by day. Amen, Lord, we open to You anew today. We exercise our spirit to contact You. Thank You we can pray. Thank You for giving us life. Infuse us with Yourself. Work Yourself into us. Oh Lord, teach us how to send fresh new roots into You today. We don’t want to let our roots get old. May we have tender new roots to absorb Your riches today. Amen, Lord, we’re rooted in You, and now we want to absorb You! Oh, what a rich Christ we have! Keep us coming to You throughout the day. Keep us contacting You in all things. Keep us opening to You concerning all things. Amen, Lord, keep us calling on Your name. We want to learn, Lord, to send new roots into You to absorb Your riches today. We give ourselves to You. We love You. We open to You. Grow in us. May Your element increase in us. Grow and spread in our mind, emotion, and will. Build us up with others. Amen, Lord, gain the growth and the building! We love You!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brother James Lee in this conference, and portions from, Life-study of Colossians, msgs. 47-48 and 55, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (part 3 – 2025 Summer Training), week 27, Enjoying the All-inclusive Christ as the Good Land—Our Allotted Portion – day 6.
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