Minute Musings...Rooted & Built Up

Have you ever tried to move a tree root that is deep in the ground?  Years ago we had moved
into a house that did not have any landscaping done.  The front yard was easy, just a matter
of getting some topsoil and putting in grass seed.  The back yard was a nightmare!  There were
3 big tree's that had been cut down by the construction crew for us, but the roots remained.
It took a lot of hard, back-breaking work, plus a truck and chains to pull those monstrosities
out of the ground!  Those roots had gone deep into the ground. 

Psalms 16:8  "I have set the LORD always before me:  because He is at my right hand,
I shall not be moved."

We have the Lord in our hearts and before our eyes, He is at our side...we shall not be moved!
No matter how hard Satan tries to pull us away, we are rooted and built up in Him!  Colossians
2:6 & 7  "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, (in faith) so walk ye in Him:
Rooted and built up in Him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding
therein with thanksgiving." 

We may bend in the storms of life, sway in the winds of adversity, but we will never be pulled
up by the roots and discarded because we are rooted in Christ.  Just as a root takes its nutrients
from the soil;  so we take our sustenance from the Word of God.  Through daily fellowship,
prayer and reading the Word, we will grow strong in the Lord.  The fruit of the Spirit will be
present in our lives.  However if we neglect our daily bread, don't make time in our day for
devotions, we will become spindly, wimpy "plants," not producing any fruit for the Master. 

Let your roots go deep into Christ, let your walk be strong and your service fruitful for the
Lord!  Rooted in Christ, we may sway but we will never break.

2 Thessalonians 3:3  "But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you and keep you
from evil."