the story of the nose hair

that day as i was reading the Bible waiting for a verse to jump out and slap me, i came across Colossians 2:6-7

so then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in Him, rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith you were taught, and overflowing with thanksfulness

Colossians 2:6-7 (NIV)

hmm..being rooted and built up, to live IN Christ, strengthened in the faith, overflowing with thankfulness. well as i was meditating on this verses, i got bored and started messing with my nose. then i started pulling out my nostril hair..hahaha yea its gross but continue to read. so i realised that if you pull it out, you'll feel pain.

so then it came to me, if we are the hair, God is the nose then the finger must be temptation. we get pulled out by temptation into sin because we let go, we are not rooted firmly in Christ, in God. when we get pulled by temptation into sin, we make a choice to hurt God, we break His heart. just like whenever you pull nostril hair your nose feels pain, so God feels pain whenever you let temptation pull you into doing something He hates so much, sin. thats how this verse spoke to me. whenever you get pulled by temptation into sin, its not over. our God is a loving God that is so..loving..He will forgive if we confess our sins and repent. amazing love =). but don't use this freedom as a credit card. dear readers, please read Galatians 5:13

anyway it also speak of being rooted in Christ and not letting any hollow and deceptive philosophy which depends on human tradition and basic principles of this world take you captive which is stated in the next verse..Colossians 2:8 which is related to Ephesians 4:14

so here ends the mystery of the nostril hair. hope this verse will touch you one way or another =)