Seek Wisdom

Colossians 1:9-11
8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Paul is speaking to the Colossians letting them know that Epaphras, a fellow servant in Christ had told him about how they had accepted the gospel of Christ.  Notice that once Paul heard that they were now Christians, he told them he would not cease to pray for them.  This is an example to us today.  When we see someone come to Christ, then we should not cease to pray for them just as Paul did.  It's the prayers that we pray for each other that keeps us strong in the Lord.  I heard a dear brother in Christ say last night that when we are on a mountaintop that we need to remember our brothers and sisters that are in a valley and pray for them.  There may come a time that the role is reversed and they are the one on the mountain and then they will be praying for us.  We as Christians need to always remember that God desires the prayers of his saints and we are to pray one for another.  Nothing can ever take the place of your own personal prayer life with God, but there will be times in our lives that we walk that dark valley and it's those times that we need the prayers of others.  The bible also teaches us that we have not because we ask not.  I am not talking about material things, but rather the spiritual things of God.  Just as Paul did, we need to be asking God daily to fill our fellow Christians with his knowledge and spiritual understanding so that they can live worthy of him.  We can only walk in the light once we understand the light.  Jesus Christ is the light of the world.  It pleased the Father that all fullness would be in him, that by his birth, death and resurrection from the grave he made a way for mankind to be reconciled to the Father.  With this knowledge, we are equipped to begin seeing the spiritual things of God.  Once we can comprehend that Jesus Christ was not just a baby born in Bethlehem, but that he was in the beginning with God, that it's all about Jesus, then we will begin to truly know wisdom.  The bible teaches in Colossians 1, verses 16 and 17 that Jesus Christ created all things.  He was right there from the very beginning.   16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

This is the wisdom and knowledge that we need to be asking God to reveal to his our new brothers and sisters in Christ. We need to seek his will in and ask for wisdom and knowledge to understand his word that we can be strong in him and walk worthy of him.  Blessed be his Holy name.