A Long Obedience (Colossians 2:6-8)
"Pray this prayer and you'll get your breakthrough." "Buy this thing and be satisfied." "Vote for this candidate and they'll solve all your problems." We tend to be drawn to things, to people, to systems that promise results, and it's not that the prayer or the product or the politician is bad... it's just that we're asking something of them they're unable to actually deliver.
This was true of the early Christians living in Colossae as well. Like today, the winds of the age were blowing in all sorts of directions... and promising all manner of things.
But a “long obedience” is the only way that transformation happens. Through the slow, cumulative, unglamorous process of walking with Jesus for years.
