Charles Spurgeon Commentary Colossians 2:7

"rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving." — Colossians 2:7 (ASV)

Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

Christians are to make progress in the heavenward road; but they are not to have any other foundation for their faith than they had at the beginning of their Christian career. We are still to stand fast as we stood at the first; we are to be rooted, grounded, stablished in the faith, keeping to the old truth that saved our souls, and laying hold upon the same Saviour with greater tenacity every hour of our lives. We are not to be like chaff driven before the wind—forever moving; but to be like the cedars of Lebanon, firmly rooted, and withstanding the heaviest storms.

Rooted and built up in him,

Growing in him. Have your very life, like a tree, rooted in Christ; and like a temple, built up in Christ.

And stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein, with thanksgiving.

Do not forget what you have been taught; do not reject it; keep to it. He who should learn one system of philosophy, and then unlearn it, and begin another, and then unlearn that, and begin another, would be more likely to turn out a fool than a philosopher; and he who begins to learn the faith in one way, and then tries to learn it in another way, and then attempts to learn it in yet another way, is more likely to be a skeptic than to be a saint.

Rooted and built up in him,

"Take a living hold of Christ as a tree does of the soil. Be also built up in him; as a building settles down upon the foundation, so do you settle down upon Christ."

And stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

When a man is established in the truth that he knows, and rejoices in what he has already received, he will not go away from it.