Rooted in Him

Today my family and I had the pleasure of going to cut down our own Christmas Tree for the first time at a nearby local tree farm. As we were driving home, I suddenly looked at my hubby "Rich" and said "I just had an epiphany ... I think? What's an epiphany anyways? " "Rich" chuckled and looks at me and says "When you realize something, it becomes clear". I said "Yep! Ok .... "

So, all excited I proceeded to tell him about how I had been pondering about the tree we had just cut down and how we had just removed it from it's life source and how we were going to put it on temporary life support at home, but it would struggle to survive and eventually it would dry up and die. I continued to explain how I thought this was similar to our relationship with God.

When we cut ourselves off from our life-sustaining root in God and remove ourselves from Him, and then try and replace our life source with a "temporary fix" from the world, we too will eventually dry up. Too often, it can seem easier to remove ourselves when the elements of this world become too harsh, but like the tree we were made in a way to have amazing survival powers if we choose to persist.

Nothing can continually sustain us but His renewing life source within us. We must have total reliance on God; ‪#‎TRUSTING and being rooted securely in Him. Like the root of the tree which finds and draws up water, so also can we find and draw up our life-sustaining water in Him.

"And they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word’s sake, immediately they stumble". (Mark 4:17 NKJV)

"But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away". (Matthew 13:6)

"Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; but its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit". (Jeremiah 17:7-8 NKJV)

"He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper". (Psalm 1:3 NKJV)