“How Are Your Roots?”
BIBLE
READING: Colossians 1-4, Philemon
Even though it is the holiday season, I am always looking
forward to the Spring. The Spring brings
about sunshine, flowers and yard work.
Yes, I said it…I enjoy working out in the yard. I love the smell of fresh cut grass, the look
of fresh mulch around the shrubs and the exhausted feeling at the end of the
day for a job well done. One of the
tasks that seems to go along with yard work is weeding out the flowerbeds. If you don’t ignore it for weeks at a time,
the weeding doesn’t take very long because they do not have a very deep root
system. That means with a quick tug of
the weed, they come right up. The same
cannot be said for the removal of a shrub.
They take a good bit more work because they have been a part of the
flower bed longer than the weeds and their root system is deeper and wider than
that of the weeds. Removal of a shrub may
sometimes require a chain to pull it up with a truck, because the roots were so
well established. However, a tree is the
hardest thing to remove. A chainsaw does
do wonders, but the stump removal seems to take longer. You may have to bring in a tractor to dig up
the stump or worse, rent or hire someone that has a stump grinder. The reason is like that of a shrub, the roots
of the tree go much deeper and thicker than that of a shrub making its removal
much, much more difficult. The Christian
life can be compared to these three plants; many of us are like the weeds, we
are easily distracted and uprooted from our faith because we have no real root
system. Others of us are like the
shrubs, we have somewhat of a root system established but getting us to leave
our faith is difficult. We all should
strive to be like the tree in the example, to have our roots so deep, it makes
the devil’s work that much more difficult.
These types of Christians can fall, but it is much more difficult for
them because they have been tested before so many times. Paul encourages us in his letter to the
church at Colossae to be “rooted and built up in Him and established
in the faith” (Colossians 2.7). We
must do our best to stay rooted and grounded in the faith to make Satan’s job
as difficult as possible.
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