Sometimes when I give someone a “To Do” list, I have in mind that one thing be done for sure. “If you don’t get anything else done, be sure you do this.”

Once in a while, we read something like that in the Bible. Like this:

“And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness” (Colossians 3:14).

What else is in that particular “To Do” list?

• Mercy
• Kindness
• Humility
• Meekness
• Longsuffering
• Forbearance
• Forgiveness

Charity is to drive my doing of all those things.

Many Christians know what they believe and they will not stray from that.

These folks are stable and well-grounded. Nothing budges them. They are strong and steady. They do not wander from the truth and faith they have been taught.

Unfortunately, too many of these people do not live in joyful thankfulness.

“Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving” (Colossians 2:7).

May I not miss the joy of living thankfully in Jesus.

And may I not be unstable and wimpy in the faith.