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)
I am not a big fan of trees.
When you have had a tree fall on your car from a lightning strike, then a tree falls on your house when a branch snapped, then branches go through your roof from an ice storm it tends to make you leery of trees.
I may not like trees in my yard, but I do love all the Biblical references to trees.
When you think about a tree and the process it goes through to become strong and compare it to ourselves, it can be very eye opening.
A tree needs roots, firmly planted in fertile soil to allow it to get nutrients and water so it can grow big and strong.
It needs sunlight so it can make its food and carbon dioxide to fuel the tree.
In return trees provide us with oxygen, fruit, flowers, paper, wood, and many other products.
The roots keep the tree steady and allows it to withstand storms, weather changes and other disasters like earthquakes, floods, and fire.
Humans need roots too.
If we are strong in our faith, we say we are firmly rooted there.
It is our faith and trust in God that gets us through our storms and disasters.
I could reminisce for hours recounting all the times that my faith has carried me through storms that would have broken other people.
We all go through a lot, even those of us who are good at hiding our emotions (I am NOT that person – lol), every single one of us has storms.
The world wants to make us victims of our tragedies, but when we take on that victim mentality, we become ineffective Christ followers.
We are warriors for Christ.
We fight and train as His warriors and we are called to refuse the victim status and not become neutral in our very polarized world.
A world where intolerance is acceptable and the refusal to allow any other opinion other than your own is common.
As warriors we must fight to show God’s love, to stand strong as a mighty tree, showing others the truth of the Father, reaching out with our arms as the branches of a tree reach out to grow stronger.
It is not an “us against them” world, it is us against the powers of darkness.
We are called to be bold, to be strong, to be brave, to press in, to be firmly rooted in Christ.
Dig deep and grow into the strongest version of you that you can be in Him.
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