"As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving." (Col. 2:6-7)

When the Coalinga earthquake occurred a couple of years ago, a lot of things were discovered. Houses that were built and were bolted to their foundation withstood that 8.2-on-the-Richter-Scale quake. On the other hand, houses that were built in a period when they did not bolt them to the foundation--a perfectly good house--when the horizontal earth movement occurred, the house moved maybe six or seven inches off its foundation. And, that's what caused the house to collapse. So, a great discovery was made at Coalinga: houses should be bolted to their foundation. Not only "built on" the foundation, but if you add horizontal earth movement, a house must be "bolted into" its foundation--sort of a living relationship with the foundation--into it, as well as, on it. (From Earl Palmer)

Likewise, let us be both "built on" as well as "bolted into" our foundation, Jesus Christ. Jesus said, "He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing." (John 15:5)