Rooted in Christ Jesus

In today’s first reading, Colossians 2: 6-15, St. Paul reminds us that in Christ “dwells the whole fullness of the deity bodily,” and that you and I share in this fullness.   Through baptism, we  “are rooted in him and built upon him and established in the faith.”   “See to it,” Paul says to us, “that no one captivate you with an empty, seductive philosophy” according to human tradition, “according to the elemental powers of the world and not according to Christ.”   By being “rooted in Him”  we are rooted in the richest of soils,  soil that leads to sharing “in this fullness in him, who is the head of every principality and power.”

I am rooted in the ultimate Source of goodness.  Therefore,  I am  capable of all that is good! And so are you!  I believe it! Do you?