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Settled
“Continue in the faith grounded and settled” (Colossians 1:23)
I live in Canada. The name comes from the Iroquois Indian word “kanata,” which means “settlement.” The early pioneers were glad to arrive on the shores of a new land and be able to settle into what they hoped would be a better life and a better country than what they had left behind.
As believers in Christ it is good for us to be “settled” as well. Not “settled” down in this world, but “settled” in our souls as to our salvation, our eternal security and all that is ours in Christ. “The faith” referred to in the above verse is not the individual faith of believers, but the truth of God as revealed in the Word of God. It is what Jude refers to when he writes, “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for THE FAITH which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 3).
An unsettled believer is an unhappy believer, with no rest of soul or peace of mind. The more you prayerfully read your Bible, the more “settled” you will become.
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