roots

But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.

- Jeremiah 17:7-8

 

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to attend a women’s conference hosted by the Christian Motorcycle Association, the theme was “Beautifully Rooted”. 

I took a lot of notes and I am using a lot of what I learned this weekend in my daily bread this week.

What does an outsider, a non-believer or even someone that is not in a close relationship with the Savior, see when they see us?

It is our personal responsibility to be sure that people see the right thing.

We are all going through a lot, even those of us who are really good at hiding our emotions, every single one of us s going through something.

The world wants to make us victims of our tragedies, and when we become a victim, we become ineffective Christians.

We are warriors, warriors fight warriors train and we are called to refuse the victim status and not become neutral in a very polarized world where intolerance is acceptable and the refusal to allow any other opinion than your own is the norm – we must fight to show God’s love, to stand in the truth of who God is, of what God says.

We need to take our thoughts captive and act counter culturally,  stop being in judgement of others, because when we judge others we are setting them up for failure.

It Is not an us against them world, it is us against the powers of darkness and we are called to be bold, to be brave, to press in, to be firmly rooted in Christ, to dig deep and grow. 

 

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