Colossians 2:4

"in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."

-Colossians 2:4

I feel as if I wrote about this earlier and perhaps got it wrong.  I think I read a similar passage and thought it was talking about Paul defending himself.  Well, maybe that passage was talking about Paul defending himself; however, I think he's talking about something different in this place.  I think people are trying to deceive the readers of this letter from following Christ and Paul is warning them about that here.  He doesn't want them to be deceived.  In the last verse, Paul says "in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge".  They are being deceived into thinking otherwise.  They are being drawn away from believing that they can find wisdom and knowledge elsewhere.  This is a sad thing and I'm sure it comes it many forms.  I'm not sure what the specific deception is, but let us be wary of being deceived.  In Christ "are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge".  How awesome is that?  How sad is it how often I am deceived into thinking otherwise.  Let us not be deceived.